My whole view of the world and my sense of language and understanding, it's informed by my understanding of poetic language... It's the poet that inf… - Marjorie Agosín

I think I am a bit like Mistral: always a foreigner, always from somewhere else. (2015)

I think food is the closest thing we have to memory—to the memory of family gatherings, the memory of your grandmother the cook, or maybe the desire for a certain food you never had. But food is really about memory: the memory of taste, the memory of when you ate the meal. I think a lot of people who left their homelands, a lot of exiles or people who were deprived of food in concentration camps, they always tie food to memory—to memory of who they were.

“Everyone is always learning something new," my father would remind me when he checked to see if I was doing my homework and found me gazing out the window at the stars. "If not, why be alive?” (p184)