Like I said, it was 1957 when I started in oral tradition by memorizing all the poems I wrote...And I'd sit in parties, and bars-they were just poems to make people feel good... (Pedro Pietri)

Like I said, it was 1957 when I started in oral tradition by memorizing all the poems I wrote...And I'd sit in parties, and bars-they were just poems to make people feel good...

Pedro Pietri

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