Richard Blanco

Looking for The Gulf Motel (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822978398
• Artikelnr.: 72254355

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.