My father never read to me

My father never read to me

My father never read to mewhen I was a boy.Other children would come to schooland talk about the bookstheir fathers readTo them.I was jealous.Sometimes I would bring homethe book meant for us to keepresting on our desk.In his late 60s,my father learned to write his name.Soon after, he was dead.Octavio Quintanilla is the publisher of Alabrava Press, founder and director of the literature and arts festival, VersoFrontera, and former poet laureate …