"I happen to feel that [Piñero] was a romantic character and there was something about his love for land that was very wonderful, the way he held Puerto Rico, that elusive homeland in the foreground of his thoughts and writing. For all of us who are uprooted and thrown into this city, to keep a semblance of that is always so dignified. That would make it perhaps a bit nostalgic for me because people like that don’t seem to be around anymore."
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On how he characterizes Miguel Piñero in “Interview: Benjamin Bratt and Leon Ichaso Talk Piñero” in Slant Magazine (2001 Dec 21)
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