In Cheap Motels of My Youth, George Bilgere continues his explorations, both funny and poignant, of modern life in America. The collection deals loosely with the subjects of divorce, sexuality, and American culture from the 1950s to today. The poems vary in tone from the fairly serious to the reflective and meditative, to the wryly comic. Bilgere is a writer who will risk wild laughter in poems that are totally heartfelt, that delight in the twists and turns of the glorious American language.