Looking for the Gulf Motel /
Blanco, Richard, 1968-
Looking for the Gulf Motel / Richard Blanco. - Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2012. - 83 p. ; 21 cm. - Pitt poetry series .
Looking for the Gulf Motel -- The name I wanted -- Betting on America -- TiÌa 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 PepiÌn -- Afternoons as Endora -- Queer theory : according to my grandmother -- Abuelo in a Western -- The port pilot -- My brother on Mt. Barker -- PapaÌ 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 -- MamaÌ with Indians : 1973, 2007 -- Venus in Miami Beach -- Cooking with MamaÌ in Maine -- House of the Virgin Mary -- Mi rosa y mi sal -- Questioning my cousin Elena -- Remembering what TiÌa Noelia can't -- Unspoken elegy for TiÌa Cucha -- Bones, teeth -- Burning in the rain -- Place of mind -- Some days the sea -- Since unfinished.
9780822962014 (pbk. : acidfree paper) 0822962012 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
2011277563
PS3552.L36533 / L66 2012
811/.54
Looking for the Gulf Motel / Richard Blanco. - Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2012. - 83 p. ; 21 cm. - Pitt poetry series .
Looking for the Gulf Motel -- The name I wanted -- Betting on America -- TiÌa 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 PepiÌn -- Afternoons as Endora -- Queer theory : according to my grandmother -- Abuelo in a Western -- The port pilot -- My brother on Mt. Barker -- PapaÌ 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 -- MamaÌ with Indians : 1973, 2007 -- Venus in Miami Beach -- Cooking with MamaÌ in Maine -- House of the Virgin Mary -- Mi rosa y mi sal -- Questioning my cousin Elena -- Remembering what TiÌa Noelia can't -- Unspoken elegy for TiÌa Cucha -- Bones, teeth -- Burning in the rain -- Place of mind -- Some days the sea -- Since unfinished.
9780822962014 (pbk. : acidfree paper) 0822962012 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
2011277563
PS3552.L36533 / L66 2012
811/.54