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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Blanco, Richard, 1968-     Subjects     Hispanic Americans -- Poetry.     Florida -- Poetry.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Blanco, Richard, 1968-       by title:      City of a hundred fi...         MARC Display

City of a hundred fires / Richard Blanco. by Blanco, Richard, 1968- Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, c1998. Subjects Hispanic Americans -- Poetry.   Florida -- Poetry. ISBN:  0822956837 (pbk. : acid-free paper) 9780822956839 (pbk. : acid-free paper) : 0822940833 (acid-free paper) 9780822940838 (acid-free paper) Series:  Pitt poetry series. Description:  x, 74 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. Contents:  América -- Teatro Martí -- La revolución at Antonio's Mercado -- Mango, number 61 -- El Malibú -- Islamorada -- Crayons for Elena -- Mail for Mamá -- Los Santos of the living room -- Mother picking produce -- The lesson -- Shaving -- Letter to El Flaco on his birthday -- Hola -- 324 Mendoza Avenue, #6 -- What Las Palmas mean: -- La Bella Dama of little Havana -- A note about sake -- The silver sands -- Photo shop -- Contemplations at the Virgin de la Caridad Cafetería, Inc. Havanasis -- Varadero en Alba -- The road to Rancho Luna -- Havana 50s -- El Jagua Resort -- Last night in Havana -- El Juan -- Partial list: Guantánamo detainees -- Found letters from 1965: El Año de la Agricultura -- The reservoir -- Abuela Valdés -- El Cucubano -- Zafra -- The morning kill -- Tía Olivia serves Wallace Stevens a Cuban egg -- Décima Guajira -- Postcard to W.C. Williams from Cienfuegos -- Palmita Mía -- Palmita Mía (translation). Requests:  0 Summary:  An exploration in verse of rites of passage within the Cuban-American culture shows how a combined nostalgia for a lost world and a daily confrontation with American culture leads to self-awareness.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 811.54 Bl Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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