An engineer, poet, Cuban American his poetry bridges cultures and languagesa mosaic of our past, our present, and our future reflecting a nation that is hectic, colorful. In this collection of over 100 poems, Richard Blanco has carefully selected poems from his previous books that represent his evolution as a writer grappling with his identity, working to find and define home, and bookended them with new poems that address those issues from a fresh, more mature perspective, allowing him to approach surrendering the pain and urgency of his past explorations. Pausing at this pivotal moment in mid-career, Blanco reexamines his life-long quest to find his proverbial home and all that it encompasses: love, family, identity and ultimately art itself. In the closing section of the volume, he has come to understand and internalize the idea that home is not one place, not one thing, and lives both inside him and inside his art.