Description: Looking for The Gulf Motel offers a genealogy of the heart: how Blanco's family's emotional legacy has shaped--and continues shaping--his Latino identity, sexual identity, and understanding of the big questions of life and death.
Review Quotes: W. H. Auden, asked to define poetry from the other written arts, wrote that poetry was 'memorable speech.' Richard Blanco's speech invites the reader in with its search for home. His lyrics open doors onto his Cuban immigrant family, his father's early death, and his own migration from a life in Florida to a life in Maine. His speech houses a generous love of others and a persistent reach for what is absent. There is nothing here you will not remember.-- "Spencer Reece"