City of a Hundred Fires by Blanco, Richard

City of a Hundred Fires (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780822956839)

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City of a Hundred Fires by Blanco, Richard

City of a Hundred Fires

$18.00
City of a Hundred Fires by Blanco, Richard

City of a Hundred Fires

$18.00
Format: Paperback
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Named one of Library Journal's Top 20 Poetry Books of 1998 Winner of the 1997 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize Runner up for the Great Lakes Colleges Association 1999 New Writers Award City of a Hundred Fires presents us with a journey through the cultural coming of age experiences of the hyphenated Cuban-American. This distinct group, known as the ﾑ Generation (as coined by Bill Teck), are the bilingual children of Cuban exiles nourished by two cultural currents--the fragmented traditions and transferred nostalgia of their parents' Caribbean homeland and the very real and present America where they grew up and live.

Author: Richard Blanco
ISBN-10: 0822956837
ISBN-13: 9780822956839
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Language: English
Published: 10/01/1998
Pages: 48
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.31lbs
Size: 7.94h x 5.96w x 0.28d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 09/01/1998 pg. 186
Library Journal 04/01/1999
By Richard Blanco
By Richard Blanco
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Richard Blanco was selected as the 2013 inaugural poet by President Barack Obama. He is the author of two other poetry collections: Directions to The Beach of the Dead, winner of the PEN/Beyond Margins Award; and Looking for The Gulf Motel. Exploring themes of Latino identity and place, Blanco's poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2000 and Best American Prose Poems and have been featured on NPR. He 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.

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