Bent Northrop Memorial Library

"The diverse poems in this collection form a mosaic of seemingly varied topics: the Pulse Nightclub massacre; an unexpected encounter on a visit to Cuba; the forced exile of 8,500 Navajos in 1868; the arrival of a young Chinese woman at Angel Island in 1938; the incarceration of a gifted writer; and the poet's abiding love for his partner, who he is finally allowed to wed. But despite each poem's unique subject matter or occasion, all are fundamentally...

"A rich, accomplished, intensely intimate collection with two full sections of new poems bookending Blanco's selections from his five 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"--