A review by kurtie
How to Love a Country: Poems by Richard Blanco

4.0

Mix of personal and contemporary, civic minded poems. Descriptions of life and politics: the Wall, Rio Grande, shootings. Our society’s corruption of life and nature. The opening poem, Declaration of Inter-Dependence portrays a bleak landscape but left me with a positive view of the future. Throughout the collection, Blanco presents some dark moments from the past several years but gives an underlying message of hope, stressing our connections to one another.