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Title
City of a hundred fires / Richard Blanco.
Author
ISBN
0822956837 (acid-free paper)
9780822956839 (acid-free paper)
0822940833 (acid-free paper)
9780822940838 (acid-free paper)
0822956861 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
9780822956860 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
9780822956839 (acid-free paper)
0822940833 (acid-free paper)
9780822940838 (acid-free paper)
0822956861 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
9780822956860 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
Published
Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, [1998].
Copyright
©1998
Language Note
Poems in English and in Spanish.
Language
engspa
Description
x, 74 pages : illustration ; 21 cm
Exhibited
1999 Poets House Showcase.
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.
Note
"1997 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize"--P. [1].
Formatted Contents Note
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).
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).
Series
Pitt poetry series
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