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Directions to the Beach of the Dead: Camino del Sol

Autor Richard Blanco
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 2005
In his second book of narrative, lyric poetry, Richard Blanco explores the familiar, unsettling journey for home and connections, those anxious musings about other lives: “Should I live here? Could I live here?” Whether the exotic (“I’m struck with Maltese fever …I dream of buying a little Maltese farm…) or merely different (“Today, home is a cottage with morning in the yawn of an open window…”), he examines the restlessness that threatens from merely staying put, the fear of too many places and too little time.

The words are redolent with his Cuban heritage: Marina making mole sauce; Tía Ida bitter over the revolution, missing the sisters who fled to Miami; his father, especially, “his hair once as black as the black of his oxfords…” Yet this is a volume for all who have longed for enveloping arms and words, and for that sanctuary called home. “So much of my life spent like this-suspended, moving toward unknown places and names or returning to those I know, corresponding with the paradox of crossing, being nowhere yet here.” Blanco embraces juxtaposition. There is the Cuban Blanco, the American Richard, the engineer by day, the poet by heart, the rhythms of Spanish, the percussion of English, the first-world professional, the immigrant, the gay man, the straight world. There is the ennui behind the question: why cannot I not just live where I live? Too, there is the precious, fleeting relief when he can write "…I am, for a moment, not afraid of being no more than what I hear and see, no more than this:..." It is what we all hope for, too.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780816524792
ISBN-10: 0816524793
Pagini: 80
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Arizona Press
Colecția University of Arizona Press
Seria Camino del Sol


Notă biografică

Richard Blanco’s first book, City of a Hundred Fires, won the University of Pittsburgh Agnes Starrett Prize in 1997. His work has appeared in many anthologies, including The Best American Poetry 2000. Blanco, who received a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing in 1997, lives in Miami, where he works as an engineer and writes. He was selected as the 2013 Inaugural Poet by President Barack Obama.

Cuprins

Time as Art in The Eternal City
A Poet in Venice
Garden of the Fugitives
We’re Not Going to Malta . . .
Through the Straits of Messina, Singing
In Defense of Livorno
Somewhere to Paris
Torsos at the Louvre after Rilke
After Barcelona, In Barcelona
Directions to The Beach of the Dead
Winter of the Volcanoes: Guatemala
Bargaining with a Goddess after Rigoberta Menchú
Pirenópolis, Brazil: Under Protest
Return from El Cerrado

Silent Family Clips
Papá’s Bridge
What’s Love Got to Do?
Revisiting Metaphors at South Point
Translation for Mamá
Abuela’s Voices: A Chronicle
Returning Shine
Only Brothers
Then Someday
The Perfect City Code
Empty Crosswords
What Is Not Mine
Sending Palms in a Letter
Three Unendings

When I was a Little Cuban Boy
Looking for Blackbirds, Hartford
A Little Hartford Music
How Can You Love New York?
Letter from Nowhere
Listening at Reading Farm, an Elegy
No More Than This, Provincetown
Crossing Boston Harbor
Mexican Almuerzo in New England
Chilo’s Daughters Sing for Me in Cuba
Visiting tía Aida
My Campo Santo
where it begins—where it ends

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