Richard Blanco. Ecco, $25 (272p) ISBN 978-0-0623-1376-8
Growing up in the 1970s in a Cuban-American community in Miami, poet Blanco was besieged by his exiled relatives’ nostalgia for the life they had left behind in Cuba in the 1960s; yet he also yearned for a American identity free from the immigrant...
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Richard Blanco, illus. by Dav Pilkey. Little, Brown, $18 (40p) ISBN 978-0-316-37144-5
The creator of Captain Underpants might seem a surprising choice to illustrate a serious poem written in honor of President Obama’s second inauguration, but Pilkey’s work shines. In incantatory free verse, Blanco draws American themes together from...
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Richard Blanco. Beacon, $25.95 (202p) ISBN 978-0-8070-1297-0
This beautiful retrospective brings together selections from four of Blanco’s previous books—including his most recent, How to Love a Country—as well as vital new poems. Blanco contemplates identity, belonging, memory, and place as he writes about...
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