Directions to the Beach of the Dead Child Advocacy the nation's first openly trans

the nation's first openly trans person elected to US state legislature

for generations of blood spilled by colonizers

like a river rat boxer

But Glenn has bigger fish to fry when Tommy's bad choices impact Glenn's orderly existence and threaten to destroy the life he has built

The day of her wedding

Directions to the Beach of the Dead Child Advocacy the nation's first openly transIn his second book of narrative, lyric poetry, Richard Blanco explores the familiar, unsettling journey for home and connections, those anxious musings about other lives: "Should I live here? Could I live here?" Whether the exotic ("I'm struck with Maltese fever I dream of buying a little Maltese farm) or merely different ("Today, home is a cottage with morning in the yawn of an open window"), he examines the restlessness that threatens from merely