andreas-andersson
Swedish
At age twelve, after reading a poem by Mexican Nobel laureate Octavio Paz, Andersson was struck by the magic of words: how tiny black figures on a white page can be used to conjure up images as vivid as life itself. The experience was life altering. For the first time he realized poetry to be a viable calling for a boy, young man, old man in the 21st century, and not only dead men of the past. All poets are alive. / / [If so inclined please visit http://loveaspoetry.blogspot.com and htpp://foolszazen.blogspot.com]
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