My Father Sings to My Embarrassment

Winner of the 7th Annual White Pine Press Poetry Prize.

Summary

Selected by Cornelius Eady as winner of the Eighth Annual White Pine Press Poetry Prize, this remarkable first book begins with Castillo’s Cuban childhood, and follows her family as they "start over without a language" on one of the last Freedom Flights to Miami. The poems chronicle the visit of a Cuban uncle, who’s surrounded by relatives that "twenty years and English have turned into strangers," and Castillo’s bittersweet return to her homeland: "Even a map cannot show you the way back to a place that no longer exists."

Product details

• Authors: Sandra Castillo, Sandra M. Castillo
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2002
• EAN: 9781893996526
• ISBN: 978-1-893996-52-6
• No. of pages: 96
• Dimensions: 149 mm x 227 mm x 7 mm
• Weight: 159 g
• Series: White Pine Press Poetry Prize; White Pine Press Poetry Prize
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies