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Blanco, Richard, 1968-
Subjects
Hispanic Americans -- Poetry.
Florida -- Poetry.
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Blanco, Richard, 1968-
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City of a hundred fi...
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City of a hundred fires / Richard Blanco.
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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).
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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.
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