“Life experiences, we writing teachers say, contribute to the development of rich literacy practices. In this remarkable book, Eli Goldblatt practices what we preach, showing readers how his experiences have informed his approaches to writing, teaching, listening, and living. Writing Home is simultaneously a moving story and an extraordinary model of a teacher—and a human—living his principles.”—Linda Adler-Kassner, director of the Writing Program, University of California, Santa Barbara

“Writing Home is an accomplished, absorbing story of displacement, struggle, romance, friendship, loss, fear, resurgent optimism, and pursuit of the ideal, though never quite achievable, poem-life. This book represents another precinct heard from as we continue to develop our understanding of literacy as a social practice.”—Keith Gilyard, author of Voices of The Self: A Study of Language Competence