Matthew McConaughey’s first poem? Well, it has a controversial origin.
“The first poem I wrote, I won the seventh grade poetry competition. But I didn’t write it,” he tells people, sharing anecdotes from the vintage McConaughey family.
He recalls his poem “She was like ‘Yes'” after showing his poem, his mother, Kay McConaughey. Kay, 93, the nonsense patriarch (who joined 55-year-old Matthew and joined the screen of the new AppletV+ film The Lost Bus) raised his stake. “She pulls out another (professionally written poem) and says, “What do you think this?”
The young Matthew nodded: “I said, that’s fine.”
“She says, ‘write that,'” Matthew says. It reminds me of the first confusion. “She’s going, ‘Did you like it?” Yeah. “Does this mean anything to you? “Yeah, that’s yours. And would you like to sign my name? ”
“I did it,” he admits with that classic McConaughey smile. “I won. So straight plagiarism.”
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However, the poem remained with him, and Matthew continued to write as a young adult and in the spotlight throughout his year. This month he published poetry and prayer (now). The prose he shares is taken from his own diary, and he says, “until the time when I was at the top of the world, when I was lost.”
The book also includes the little wisdom of three children with his wife, Camila Albes McConaughey. son Levy, 17 (playing the on-screen son in the Lost Bus), daughter Vida, 15 years old, and young son Livingston, 12;
The Oscar winner, who released the bestselling memoir Greenlight in 2020, began writing prose more seriously overseas in Australia in 1989. “I went out into far lands and had no friends or anything. It was me and me,” he says. “And I was writing poetry and trying to understand life.
The effort, he says, is “solid, but very self-esteem,” but it will spark decades of written remorse. “I kept writing… Sometimes it was ambitious for me. Sometimes it was when I was fiercely doubted and lacked conviction.
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His writing was private, but a year ago, “I began to realize that I was peeling a bit of my perspective,” says Matthew. “And I vowed to myself long ago. Never be ironic. I’ve seen too many people get older and go from skepticism to irony. That’s early death.”
“I started looking around the world around me, but I didn’t find much evidence to believe more,” says Matthew, who began sifting through his poems. “Well, let’s look back and see what we’ve got.”
The proverbs written in the regions from Vietnam to Hollywood, his own meditations and poetry dotted with poems and poetry are ways to lean on the poems of the Starry Life. Or, as he states in his book introduction, “how to put proofs on the shelf for the season and rhyme how to reason our methods.”
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