Gary+Soto

=**Gary Soto: **= = = =**Hayden, Brock, Garrett D. **= =**Facts about Gary Soto **= = =
 * **He started poetry in college. **
 * **He studied poetry, and liked to write about his childhood or life experiences. **
 * **He wasn’t good at baseball but loved it as a kid. **
 * **Collected baseball cards. **
 * **As a kid he was shy. **
 * **His dad died as a kid. **
 * **Liked girls in middle school. **
 * **He started poetry in 1974. **
 * **He thought poetry was “Flowery writing about sunsets, and long walks on the Beach." **
 * **He kept his poems to himself when he started; he also kept his poems in a notebook. **
 * **Gave up geology for poetry. **
 * **His friends didn't think he could do poetry. **
 * **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">No matter what time of day it was, if he had an idea for a poem he would start creating the poem. **
 * **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">He was told English poems would help add shape to his poems and Chinese poems would help add clarity to his poems, so he studied them **
 * **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Liked short poems celebrating common things. **
 * **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Liked U.S. poetry. **
 * **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Wrote some poems about bad human natures, some about images and nature. **
 * **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Some of his advice was to look at you own life.. **
 * **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Doesn't like animal cruelty. **
 * **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Liked picnics, nature, and dancing. **
 * **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Hitch-hiked to the ocean. **
 * **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">He grew up poor with no allowance. **
 * **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Works at University of California. **
 * **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Born on April 12, 1952. **
 * **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Born in Fresno, California. **
 * **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">In 1995 Finalist for both the Los Angeles Times Book. **
 * **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Produced the film "The Pool Party". **
 * **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Married Carolyn Oda in 1975. **
 * **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Had one daughter. **
 * **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Former associate prof. of English and ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkley. **
 * **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Got award The Discovery-The Nation prize in 1975. **
 * **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Won International Poetry Forum award. **
 * **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Wrote “The Elements of San Joaquin”. Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1977. **
 * **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Wrote “A Fire in My Hands”. New York, Scholastic, 1990. **
 * **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Made the play “Novio Boy”. New York, Harcourt Brace, 1997. **
 * **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Gary Soto graduated high school with a 1.6 GPA. **
 * **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Gary was a tree hugger; he loved nature. **

=** The poem **= =** [|After Tonight] **=

** By [|Gary Soto] b. 1952 <span class="fullname_search">Gary Soto **

 * Because there are avenues **
 * Of traffic lights, a phone book **
 * Of brothers and lawyers, **
 * Why should you think your purse **
 * Will not be tugged from your arm **
 * Or the screen door **
 * Will remain latched **
 * Against the man **
 * Who hugs and kisses **
 * His pillow **
 * In the corridor of loneliness? **


 * There is a window of light **
 * A sprinkler turning **
 * As the earth turns, **
 * And you do not think of the hills **
 * And of the splintered wrists it takes **
 * To give you **
 * The heat rising toward the ceiling. **


 * You expect your daughter **
 * To be at the door any moment **
 * And your husband to arrive **
 * With the night **
 * That is suddenly all around. **
 * You expect the stove to burst **


 * A collar of fire **
 * When you want it, **
 * The siamese cats **
 * To move against your legs, purring. **

=**<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Picture **= = = = = =** Works Cited **= =** For the pictures of a purse and new york city **= = = [], [] = =
 * But remember this: **
 * Because blood revolves from one lung to the next, **
 * Why think it will **
 * After tonight? **
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 * After Tonight by Gary Soto : The Poetry Foundation." //Poetry Foundation//. Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute, 2011. Web. 13 Dec.2011. []. **


 * //Dolly-sods-mountains-moon-2//. Photograph. //Forest Scenery//. ForestWander Nature Photography, 22 Sept. 2008. Web. 9 Dec. 2011. []. **


 * "Gary Soto Biography - Life, Family, Childhood, Children, Parents, Story, School, Young, Son." //Encyclopedia of World Biography//. 2011. Web. 13 Dec. 2011. <http://www.notablebiographies.com/news/Sh-Z/Soto-Gary.html>. **


 * Print Soto, Gary. "Gary Soto." //Gary Soto//. Gary Soto, 2008. Web. 29 Nov. 2011. []. **


 * //Sad Face//. Photograph. //WikiPedia//. WikiMedia, 2001. Web. 9 Dec. 2011. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sad_face.svg>. **


 * Soto, Gary. //A Fire in My Hands: a Book of Poems//. New York: Scholastic, 1990. **


 * "What Are Facts about GARY Soto." //The Q&A Wiki//. Answers.com, Dec. 1998. Web. 13 Dec. 2011. [].‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ **


 * Monroe, Harriet. "After Tonight by Gary Soto : The Poetry Foundation." //Poetry Foundation//. Poetry Foundation, 2011. Web. 14 Dec. 2011. <http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/171730>.‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ **


 * Advameg, Inc. "Gary Soto Biography - Life, Family, Childhood, Children, Parents, Story, School, Young, Son." //Encyclopedia of World Biography//. 2011. Web. 14 Dec. 2011. []. **


 * Answers Corporation. "What Are Facts about GARY Soto." //The Q&A Wiki//. 2011. Web. 14 Dec. 2011. []. **


 * //Gary Soto//. 2008. Web. 14 Dec. 2011. <http://www.garysoto.com/bio.html>. **