SOURCE: “The Childhood Worries, Or Why I Became a Writer,” in The Iowa Review, Vol. 25, No. 2, Spring-Summer, 1995, pp. 105-15.
In the following essay, Soto reminisces about childhood events later utilized in his verse.
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