Looking for the Gulf Motel / Richard Blanco.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Pitt poetry seriesPublication details: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2012.Description: 83 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780822962014 (pbk. : acidfree paper)
  • 0822962012 (pbk. : acidfree paper)
DDC classification:
  • 811/.54 23
LOC classification:
  • PS3552.L36533 L66 2012
Contents:
Looking for the Gulf Motel -- The name I wanted -- Betting on America -- Tía Margarita Johnson's house in Hollywood -- Cousin Consuelo, on piano -- Taking my cousin's photo at the Statue of Liberty -- Of consequence, inconsequently -- The island within -- Poem between Havana and Varadero -- Habla Cuba speaking -- 5:00 AM in Cuba -- Practice problem -- El Florida room -- Sitting on my mother's porch in Westchester, Florida -- Playing house with Pepín -- Afternoons as Endora -- Queer theory : according to my grandmother -- Abuelo in a Western -- The port pilot -- My brother on Mt. Barker -- Papá at the kitchen table -- My father, my hands -- Love as if love -- Maybe -- Cheers to Hyakutake -- Thicker than country -- Killing Mark -- Love poem according to quantum theory -- Birthday portrait -- Mamá with Indians : 1973, 2007 -- Venus in Miami Beach -- Cooking with Mamá in Maine -- House of the Virgin Mary -- Mi rosa y mi sal -- Questioning my cousin Elena -- Remembering what Tía Noelia can't -- Unspoken elegy for Tía Cucha -- Bones, teeth -- Burning in the rain -- Place of mind -- Some days the sea -- Since unfinished.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Notes Date due Barcode
Book Book Stonewall Non-Fiction PS 3552 BLA 2012 1 Available 08229620141
Book Book Stonewall Special collection PS 3552 BLA 2012 2 Special Collection autographed by author with personal note 181472

Looking for the Gulf Motel -- The name I wanted -- Betting on America -- Tía Margarita Johnson's house in Hollywood -- Cousin Consuelo, on piano -- Taking my cousin's photo at the Statue of Liberty -- Of consequence, inconsequently -- The island within -- Poem between Havana and Varadero -- Habla Cuba speaking -- 5:00 AM in Cuba -- Practice problem -- El Florida room -- Sitting on my mother's porch in Westchester, Florida -- Playing house with Pepín -- Afternoons as Endora -- Queer theory : according to my grandmother -- Abuelo in a Western -- The port pilot -- My brother on Mt. Barker -- Papá at the kitchen table -- My father, my hands -- Love as if love -- Maybe -- Cheers to Hyakutake -- Thicker than country -- Killing Mark -- Love poem according to quantum theory -- Birthday portrait -- Mamá with Indians : 1973, 2007 -- Venus in Miami Beach -- Cooking with Mamá in Maine -- House of the Virgin Mary -- Mi rosa y mi sal -- Questioning my cousin Elena -- Remembering what Tía Noelia can't -- Unspoken elegy for Tía Cucha -- Bones, teeth -- Burning in the rain -- Place of mind -- Some days the sea -- Since unfinished.

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