"A rich, accomplished, intensely intimate collection with two full sections of new poems bookending Blanco's selections from his five previous volumes. "An engineer, poet, Cuban American...his poetry bridges cultures and languages-a mosaic of our past, our present, and our future-reflecting a nation that is hectic, colorful, and still becoming." -President Joe Biden, conferring the National Humanities Medal on Richard Blanco, 2023"--
"A rich, accomplished, intensely intimate collection with two full sections of new poems bookending Blanco's selections from his five previous volumes. "An engineer, poet, Cuban American...his poetry bridges cultures and languages-a mosaic of our past, our present, and our future-reflecting a nation that is hectic, colorful, and still becoming." -President Joe Biden, conferring the National Humanities Medal on Richard Blanco, 2023"--Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Richard Blanco is the recent recipient of the National Humanities Medal. He has received awards for several of his books, including the poetry collections How To Love a County and Looking for The Gulf Motel, and memoirs For All of Us, One Today and The Prince of Los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood. He was selected by Barack Obama as the 5th presidential inaugural poet in US history. He was named as the American Academy of Poets first-ever education ambassador. Connect with him online: richard-blanco.com, Twitter (rblancopoet), Facebook (RichardBlancoPoetry), and Instagram (poetrichardblanco).
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Radiant Beings: New Poems Part 1 The Splintering —playing god— Why I Needed To Until This: An Ekphrastic Ars Poetica Questioning Villa Vizcaya Museum and Gardens Radiant Beings: Photos by Joyce Tenneson —anatomy of light— To the Artist of the Invisible Big Wood River What You Didn’t Let Us Lose Music in Our Hands Visiting Elizabeth: A Glosa What Governs Us Maine Yet Miami Upon a Time: Surfside, Miami From City of a Hundred Fires América La Revolución at Antonio’s Mercado Mango, Number 61 Shaving Mother Picking Produce The Silver Sands 324 Mendoza Avenue, #6 Havanasis Varadero en Alba El Jagua Resort Found Letters from 1965: El Año de la Agricultura El Cucubano Décima Guajira Palmita Mía Palmita Mía From Directions to the Beach of the Dead Time as Art in the Eternal City A Poet in Venice We’re Not Going to Malta . . . Somewhere to Paris Torsos at the Louvre After Barcelona, in Barcelona Directions to the Beach of the Dead Winter of the Volcanoes: Guatemala Bargaining with a Goddess Return from El Cerrado Silent Family Clips Papá’s Bridge What’s Love Got to Do? Visiting Metaphors at South Point Translation for Mamá The Perfect City Code When I Was a Little Cuban Boy Looking for Blackbirds, Hartford How Can You Love New York? No More Than This, Provincetown Crossing Boston Harbor Mexican Almuerzo in New England where it begins—where it ends From Looking for the Gulf Motel Looking for The Gulf Motel Betting on America Taking My Cousin’s Photo at the Statue of Liberty The Island Within Practice Problem El Florida Room Afternoons as Endora Queer Theory: According to My Grandmother Maybe Thicker Than Country Killing Mark Cooking with Mamá in Maine My Father in My Hands Since Unfinished From How to Love a Country Como Tú / Like You / Like Me Complaint of El Río Grande Leaving in the Rain: Limerick, Ireland Island Body Matters of the Sea Mother Country My Father in English El Americano in the Mirror Using Country in a Sentence American Wandersong Imaginary Exile Let’s Remake America Great Until We Could between [another door] One Pulse—One Poem Seventeen Funerals America the Beautiful, Again What I Know of Country And So We All Fall Down Declaration of Inter-Dependence Cloud Anthem Here I Am: New Poems Part 2 Uncertain-Sea Principle Seashore: An Ovillejo Hineni Weather of My Weathering Life Without Rain Thank You: For Not Letting Me Die Bluejay Dialogue: An Ovillejo The Cutting Writing Home For the Homeland of My Body Become Me Reverse Bucket List Time Capsule Living Will Self to Self Anti-Poem A Good Day to Die Moonrise Say This Isn’t the End Notes Credits Acknowledgments
Radiant Beings: New Poems Part 1 The Splintering —playing god— Why I Needed To Until This: An Ekphrastic Ars Poetica Questioning Villa Vizcaya Museum and Gardens Radiant Beings: Photos by Joyce Tenneson —anatomy of light— To the Artist of the Invisible Big Wood River What You Didn’t Let Us Lose Music in Our Hands Visiting Elizabeth: A Glosa What Governs Us Maine Yet Miami Upon a Time: Surfside, Miami From City of a Hundred Fires América La Revolución at Antonio’s Mercado Mango, Number 61 Shaving Mother Picking Produce The Silver Sands 324 Mendoza Avenue, #6 Havanasis Varadero en Alba El Jagua Resort Found Letters from 1965: El Año de la Agricultura El Cucubano Décima Guajira Palmita Mía Palmita Mía From Directions to the Beach of the Dead Time as Art in the Eternal City A Poet in Venice We’re Not Going to Malta . . . Somewhere to Paris Torsos at the Louvre After Barcelona, in Barcelona Directions to the Beach of the Dead Winter of the Volcanoes: Guatemala Bargaining with a Goddess Return from El Cerrado Silent Family Clips Papá’s Bridge What’s Love Got to Do? Visiting Metaphors at South Point Translation for Mamá The Perfect City Code When I Was a Little Cuban Boy Looking for Blackbirds, Hartford How Can You Love New York? No More Than This, Provincetown Crossing Boston Harbor Mexican Almuerzo in New England where it begins—where it ends From Looking for the Gulf Motel Looking for The Gulf Motel Betting on America Taking My Cousin’s Photo at the Statue of Liberty The Island Within Practice Problem El Florida Room Afternoons as Endora Queer Theory: According to My Grandmother Maybe Thicker Than Country Killing Mark Cooking with Mamá in Maine My Father in My Hands Since Unfinished From How to Love a Country Como Tú / Like You / Like Me Complaint of El Río Grande Leaving in the Rain: Limerick, Ireland Island Body Matters of the Sea Mother Country My Father in English El Americano in the Mirror Using Country in a Sentence American Wandersong Imaginary Exile Let’s Remake America Great Until We Could between [another door] One Pulse—One Poem Seventeen Funerals America the Beautiful, Again What I Know of Country And So We All Fall Down Declaration of Inter-Dependence Cloud Anthem Here I Am: New Poems Part 2 Uncertain-Sea Principle Seashore: An Ovillejo Hineni Weather of My Weathering Life Without Rain Thank You: For Not Letting Me Die Bluejay Dialogue: An Ovillejo The Cutting Writing Home For the Homeland of My Body Become Me Reverse Bucket List Time Capsule Living Will Self to Self Anti-Poem A Good Day to Die Moonrise Say This Isn’t the End Notes Credits Acknowledgments
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