A review by spiderfelt
Looking for the Gulf Motel by Richard Blanco

4.0

One of the last squares remaining for #bookbingonw2017 was a collection of poetry. Not sure where to start, I recalled the national poet laureate when Obama was inaugurated in 2008 was a Cuban American. A quick search turned up this evocative collection filled with stories of Blanco's childhood, and of his exiled extended family who dream of the land they loved and left. The poems are complete pictures of a time and place elegantly rendered.