Read Looking for the Gulf Motel

Looking for the Gulf Motel

Richard Blanco

4.9/5 (27803 ratings)

Description:Family continues to be a wellspring of inspiration and learning for Blanco. His third book of poetry, Looking for The Gulf Motel, is a genealogy of the heart, exploring how his family’s emotion legacy has shaped—and continues shaping—his perspectives. The collection is presented in three movements, each one chronicling his understanding of a particular facet of life from childhood into adulthood. As a child born into the milieu of his Cuban exiled familia, the first movement delves into early questions of cultural identity and their evolution into his unrelenting sense of displacement and quest for the elusive meaning of home. The second, begins with poems peering back into family again, examining the blurred lines of gender, the frailty of his father-son relationship, and the intersection of his cultural and sexual identities as a Cuban-American gay man living in rural Maine. In the last movement, poems focused on his mother’s life shaped by exile, his father’s death, and the passing of a generation of relatives, all provide lessons about his own impermanence in the world and the permanence of loss. Looking for the Gulf Motel is looking for the beauty of that which we cannot hold onto, be it country, family, or love.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Looking for the Gulf Motel. To get started finding Looking for the Gulf Motel, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: —

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: —

ISBN: 0822962012

Description: Family continues to be a wellspring of inspiration and learning for Blanco. His third book of poetry, Looking for The Gulf Motel, is a genealogy of the heart, exploring how his family’s emotion legacy has shaped—and continues shaping—his perspectives. The collection is presented in three movements, each one chronicling his understanding of a particular facet of life from childhood into adulthood. As a child born into the milieu of his Cuban exiled familia, the first movement delves into early questions of cultural identity and their evolution into his unrelenting sense of displacement and quest for the elusive meaning of home. The second, begins with poems peering back into family again, examining the blurred lines of gender, the frailty of his father-son relationship, and the intersection of his cultural and sexual identities as a Cuban-American gay man living in rural Maine. In the last movement, poems focused on his mother’s life shaped by exile, his father’s death, and the passing of a generation of relatives, all provide lessons about his own impermanence in the world and the permanence of loss. Looking for the Gulf Motel is looking for the beauty of that which we cannot hold onto, be it country, family, or love.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Looking for the Gulf Motel. To get started finding Looking for the Gulf Motel, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

Looking for the Gulf Motel

Looking for the Gulf Motel

More Books

The Prince of Los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood

The Prince of Los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood

How to Love a Country

How to Love a Country

Homeland of My Body: New and Selected Poems

Homeland of My Body: New and Selected Poems

Grabbed: Poets & Writers on Sexual Assault, Empowerment & Healing

Grabbed: Poets & Writers on Sexual Assault, Empowerment & Healing

For All of Us, One Today: An Inaugural Poet's Journey

For All of Us, One Today: An Inaugural Poet's Journey

One Today

One Today

City of a Hundred Fires

City of a Hundred Fires

Directions to the Beach of the Dead (Camino del Sol)

Directions to the Beach of the Dead (Camino del Sol)

One Today: A Poem for Barack Obama's Presidential Inauguration

One Today: A Poem for Barack Obama's Presidential Inauguration