Richard Blanco

Matters of the Sea/Cosas del Mar

A Poem Commemorating a New Era in Us-Cuba Relations

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Produktbeschreibung

A commemorative bilingual chapbook that beautifully reproduces inaugural poet Richard Blanco's stirring poem, commissioned by the US State Department and read during the official reopening ceremony of the US Embassy in Havana, Cuba, on August 14, 2015.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Seitenzahl: 48
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 163mm x 117mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 59g
• ISBN-13: 9780822964001
• ISBN-10: 0822964007
• Artikelnr.: 43678766

Autorenporträt

Richard Blanco, selected as the 2013 inaugural poet by President Barack Obama, is the author of three poetry collections: Directions to The Beach of the Dead, winner of the PEN/Beyond Margins Award; City of a Hundred Fires, winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, and Looking for The Gulf Motel. 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.