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--and bilingual
poetry even less.

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And they had never done
poetry, and they had never

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published bilingual poetry.

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But I insisted.

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I said, no, but it's important
that millions of children

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in this nation
that are bilingual,

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and we should be doing
bilingual books for them.

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And so Chula Book
Press of San Francisco

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came out with this collection.

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And to tell the
truth, the first year,

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they sold about 35,000 copies.

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So it was a big success.

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And my first poem--

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"I Believe in Poetry,"--

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that few words can say a lot.

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The poem goes--

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"A poem makes us see
everything for the first time.

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Un poema nos hace ver
todo por primera vez."

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And I really believe that.