Looking for The Gulf Motel

Richard Blanco

Publication Year: 2012

Looking for The Gulf Motel offers a genealogy of the heart: how Blanco’s family’s emotional legacy has shaped—and continues shaping—his Latino identity, sexual identity. and understanding of the big questions of life and death.

Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press

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E-ISBN-13: 9780822978398
E-ISBN-10: 0822978393
Print-ISBN-13: 9780822962014
Print-ISBN-10: 0822962012

Page Count: 96
Publication Year: 2012

Series Title: Pitt Poetry Series
Series Editor Byline: Ed Ochester

Looking for The Gulf Motel

Title Page, Copyright

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

Acknowledgments

Research Areas

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