Directions To The Beach Of The Dead

by Blanco, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780816524792
• ISBN10: 0816524793
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-09-30
• Publisher: Univ of Arizona Pr

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."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Time as Art in The Eternal City	1	(1)
A Poet in Venice	2	(2)
Garden of the Fugitives	4	(1)
We're Not Going to Malta...	5	(1)
Through the Straits of Messina, Singing	6	(1)
In Defense of Livorno	7	(1)
Somewhere to Paris	8	(1)
Torsos at the Louvre after Rilke	9	(1)
After Barcelona, In Barcelona	10	(1)
Directions to The Beach of the Dead	11	(2)
Winter of the Volcanoes: Guatemala	13	(1)
Bargaining with a Goddess after Rigoberta Menchú	14	(1)
Pirenópolis, Brazil: Under Protest	15	(1)
Return from El Cerrado	16	(3)
Silent Family Clips	19	(1)
Papá's Bridge	20	(2)
What's Love Got to Do?	22	(1)
Revisiting Metaphors at South Point	23	(1)
Translation for Mamá	24	(2)
Abuela's Voices: A Chronicle	26	(5)
Returning Shine	31	(2)
Only Brothers	33	(1)
Then Someday	34	(2)
The Perfect City Code	36	(2)
Empty Crosswords	38	(2)
What Is Not Mine	40	(1)
Sending Palms in a Letter	41	(1)
Three Unendings	42	(5)
When I was a Little Cuban Boy	47	(1)
Looking for Blackbirds, Hartford	48	(2)
A Little Hartford Music	50	(1)
How Can You Love New York?	51	(1)
Letter from Nowhere	52	(1)
Listening at Reading Farm, an Elegy	53	(1)
No More Than This, Provincetown	54	(1)
Crossing Boston Harbor	55	(1)
Mexican Almuerzo in New England	56	(1)
Chilo's Daughters Sing for Me in Cuba	57	(2)
Visiting tia Aida	59	(2)
My Campo Santo	61	(1)
where it begins—where it ends	62	(1)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	63