Richard Blanco

Looking for the Gulf Motel

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Looking for The Gulf Motel offers a genealogy of the heart: how Blanco's family's emotional legacy has shaped--and continues shaping--his Latino identity, sexual identity, and understanding of the big questions of life and death.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 151mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 121g
• ISBN-13: 9780822962014
• ISBN-10: 0822962012
• Artikelnr.: 34568543

Autorenporträt

Richard Blanco, named as the 2013 inaugural poet for President Barack Obama, is the author of two previous poetry collections: Directions to The Beach of the Dead, winner of the PEN/Beyond Margins Award; and City of a Hundred Fires, winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. Exploring themes of Latino identity and place, his poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2000 and Best American Prose Poems and have been featured on NPR. Blanco is a fellow of the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, recipient of two Florida Artist Fellowships, and has taught at Georgetown and American universities. A builder of cities and poems, Blanco is also a professional civil engineer.