City of a Hundred Fired

Informationen zum Autor Richard Blanco 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. Klappentext A journey in through the cultural coming of age experiences of the hyphenated Cuban-American. It exposes and brings into question the cultural contradictions and yearnings of childhood and adolescent experiences through poetic narratives.City of a Hundred Fires presents us with a journey through the cultural coming of age experiences of the hyphenated Cuban-American. Richard Blanco was selected as the 2013 inaugural poet by President Barack Obama.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Blanco
• Publisher: External catalogues_US
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.1998
• EAN: 9780822956839
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-5683-9
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 230 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Pitt Poetry
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies