![]() ![]() ![]() Bowles says Güero uses poetry to grapple with this and other difficulties. That sets his reputation as a nerd, Bowles says, which also makes him vulnerable to bullying. “Not me, no way! I dropped out of kindergarten, little rebel that I was,” Güero says in the book. ![]() The teacher is starting with the very basics: one letter, one day at a time. When he gets to school, expecting to dive into reading, he realizes none of the other kids even know the alphabet. One of the poems in the book, called “Learning to Read,” is about Güero’s disappointment on his first day of kindergarten. ![]() He loves video games, his friends, getting into mischief and especially reading. Bowles says the poems are all narrated by a boy called “Güero,” a light-skinned Chicano living on the border in 2018. but also very rooted in their comunidades. David Bowles is a Mexican-American author, professor and translator from the Rio Grande Valley who says he’s a proud Valluco – in other words, a Valley kid.īowles’ recent book, “They Call Me Güero: A Border Kid’s Poems,” shines a light on the common experience of Mexican-Americans who grow up in two worlds: they’re part of the U.S. ![]()
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