young people
like substituting potatoes for yucca and yautia--root vegetables typically paired with a meat to make sancocho
until they find different paths of escape
with no adults to help them survive or guide them home
offers recipes for the dishes you haven’t been able to enjoy for years—from French Onion Soup and Quiche Lorraine to pizza
How to Love a Country: Poems Ages 5 and up young peopleA new collection from the renowned inaugural poet exploring immigration, gun violence, racism, LGBTQ issues, and more, in accessible and emotive verses. As presidential inaugural poet, memoirist, public speaker, educator, and advocate, Richard Blanco has crisscrossed the nation inviting communities to connect to the heart of human experience and our shared identity as a country. In this new collection of poems, his first in over seven years, Blanco