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When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities is an important book for its passion and politics, but just as much so for its playfulness and positivity. With poems like these, poets will surely find themselves inspired to write and be their fullest selves.
This book is equal parts about culture, family, and self-discovery, and likely every reader can relate to the struggle with those things. Not every poet can bridge the gap between their own experiences and others, but Blanco does it expertly by incorporating food, speech, music, and the smallest physical details in his poems.
I was five when that song came out, / and too young to realize how / important it was.
It was on that first night in August when Lily Böhn tip-toed across the cobbles of Isola Bella to the Pier in her pink ballet slippers that she heard the gospel truth from Harvey Whittaker.
Caitlin M.S. Buxbaum 