How to love a country : poems /

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Blanco, Richard, 1968- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Beacon Press, [2019]
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Table of Contents:
  • Election year
  • Dreaming a wall
  • Complaint of El Rio Grande
  • Como tu/Like you/Like me
  • Staring at Aspens: a history lesson
  • Letter from Yi Cheung
  • Leaving in the rain: Limerick, Ireland
  • Island body
  • What we didn't know about Cuba
  • Matters of the sea
  • Mother country
  • My father in English, indeed
  • El americano in the mirror
  • Using country in a sentence
  • American wandersong
  • Imaginary exile
  • November eyes
  • Let's remake America great
  • Easy lynching on Herndon Avenue
  • Poetry assignment #4: what do you miss most?
  • St. Louis: prayer before dawn
  • Until we could
  • Between [another door]
  • Pulse-one poem
  • Funerals
  • Remembering Boston strong
  • America the beautiful again
  • What I know of country
  • St. Louis: prayer at dawn
  • Now without me
  • And so we all fall down
  • Cloud anthem.