Research Catalog

Title

Directions to the beach of the dead / Richard Blanco.

Author

Blanco, Richard, 1968-

Publication

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2005.

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Details

Description

64 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"In his second book of poetry, Richard Blanco explores the universal desire for home through evocative narratives, playful musings, and lyrical power. These poems take us on a relentless journey to Spain, Italy, France, Guatemala, Brazil, Cuba, and New England, as they examine the ideal of home and the connections we seek through place, culture, family, love, and art."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Camino del sol

Uniform Title

Camino del sol

Subjects

• Poetry
• Gay men > Poetry
• Cuban Americans > Poetry

Genre/Form

Poetry

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Time as art in the eternal city -- A poet in Venice -- Garden of the fugitives -- We're not going to Malta ... -- Through the straits of Messina, singing -- In defense of Livorno -- Somewhere to Paris -- Torsos at the Louvre after Rilke -- After Barcelona, in Barcelona -- Directions to the beach of the dead -- Winter of the volcanoes : Guatemala -- Bargaining with a goddess after Rigoberta Menchu -- Pirenopolis, Brazil : under protest -- Return from El Cerrado -- Silent family clips -- Papa's bridge -- What's love got to do? -- Revisiting metaphors at South Point -- Translation for Mama -- Abuela's voices : a chronicle -- Returning shine -- Only brothers -- Then someday -- The perfect city code -- Empty crosswords -- What is not mine -- Sending palms in a letter -- Three unendings -- When I was a little Cuban boy -- -- Looking for blackbirds, Hartford -- A little Harrrrtford music -- How can you love New York? -- Letter from nowhere -- Listening at reading farm, an elegy -- No more than this, Provincetown -- Crossing Boston Harbor -- Mexican Almuerzo in New England -- Chilo's daughters sing for me in Cuba -- Visiting tia Aida -- My Campo Santo -- where it begins--where it ends.

ISBN

0816524793 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

LCCN

• ^^2005002649
• 9780816524792

OCLC

57579482

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library