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5.0 out of 5 stars
Wow!,
By Martin H. Dickinson "Walker in the woods, dis... (Washington, D.C.) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Directions to the Beach of the Dead (Camino del Sol) (Paperback)
Blanco is the real deal. So much poetry today is bland, plain vanilla, like art that people walk by quickly in a museum to get to the gift shop or say they've been there. Blanco is anything but. Directions to the Beach, if anything, is even more fiery than his first volume, the award-winning City of a Hundred Fires. Blanco takes us everywhere--we are on a journey: through the Straits of Messina, to Paris, New York, Miami. We meet lovers (here you will find a series of "for" poems like no others--for M.C., C.S.B., B.L), friends, family members (my favorites: Abuelo and Abuela). Here are the things and stuff of poetry--a world like no other. America: give us a poetry that speaks to our finest sensibilities; that tells the truth about family, love, loss, beauty and joy. Give us the sensuous detail. Give us all of this in language (or rather languages--for what are our languages if not English and Spanish?). The leavened bread; the deep red wine.
Seek no further. Here it is. |
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Directions to the Beach of the Dead (Camino del Sol) by Richard Blanco (Paperback - September 1, 2005)
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