Homeland of My Body: New and Selected Poems

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