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Homeland of My Body: New and Selected Poems
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ISBN10: 0807012971
ISBN13: 9780807012970
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: Oct 24 2023
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780807012970
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: Oct 24 2023
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
A rich, accomplished, intensely intimate collection with 2 full sections of new poems bookending Blanco's selections from his 5 previous volumes An engineer, poet, Cuban American . . . his poetry bridges cultures and languages--a mosaic of our past, our present, and our future--reflecting a nation that is hectic, colorful, and still becoming.--President Joe Biden, conferring the National Humanities Medal on Richard Blanco, 2023 What a gift, this new gathering of poems from the singular Richard Blanco. A cause for rejoicing!--Krista Tippett, author of Being Wise and host of On Being Blanco's poems are journeys to a homeland within the heart, a welcome homecoming earned from a lifetime's wise voyaging.--Sandra Cisneros
A triumphant anthem to a rich life in all its ages and awakenings.--Naomi Shihab Nye In this collection of over 100 poems, Richard Blanco has carefully selected poems from his previous books that represent his evolution as a writer grappling with his identity, working to find and define home, and bookended them with new poems that address those issues from a fresh, more mature perspective, allowing him to approach surrendering the pain and urgency of his past explorations. Pausing at this pivotal moment in mid-career, Blanco reexamines his life-long quest to find his proverbial home and all that it encompasses: love, family, identity and ultimately art itself. In the closing section of the volume, he has come to understand and internalize the idea that home is not one place, not one thing, and lives both inside him and inside his art. The poems range in form, voice, and setting, showcasing his command of craft, but in essence they are one continuous reflection on the existential question at the core of all of Blanco's poetry: how can we find our place in the world. All are characterized by his keen eye, deep sensibility, and polished craft, without pretense. This volume is a gift to Blanco's many readers but even more to those who have yet to discover that they can understand, and fall in love with poetry, that a poet can speak to them about his own and their own lives so profoundly, and that this poet, as Barack Obama discovered, can speak for all of us. Richard Blanco has been justly celebrated for his poetic gifts and his command of the many forms poetry can take, from the finely structured to the prose poem formats. His previous volumes have been praised by Patricia Smith, Eileen Myles, Sandra Cisneros, Elizabeth Alexander, and many others. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and dozens of other publications.
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