In turbulent times, Richard Blanco creates 'bridges of empathy' in new poetry book.
"In a democracy there are setbacks, but we can’t let that dominate. Otherwise all bets are off and then what do we do?”
Yet, the son of Cuban immigrants who settled in Florida via Spain has become one of the nation’s foremost American public poets, joining a rarified group of four others —Robert Frost, Maya Angelou, Miller Williams and Elizabeth Alexander — who served as inaugural poets,The cover of Richard Blanco's collection of poems "How to Love a Country.
“At the core of everything, what I try to do with my poetry is always create bridges of empathy,” Blanco said in a phone conversation with NBC News."Hate only creates hate," he said, but creating “a space of love and compassion” is to only way to get out of our current political and social stalemate.Blanco reflects on how far the country has come in some ways, as he does in"Until We Could," his poem about same-sex marriage.
which dealt with his immigrant childhood, the pain of exile for his parents and his own coming out as a gay man.
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