City of a Hundred Fires
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Pitt Poetry Series
ISBN-10
0822956837
ISBN-13
9780822956839
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Imprint
University of Pittsburgh Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 1st, 1998
Print length
88 Pages
Weight
144 grams
Dimensions
15.50 x 20.30 x 0.90 cms
Product Classification:
Poetry / poems by individual poetsPoetry by individual poets
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City of a Hundred Fires presents us with a journey through the cultural coming of age experiences of the hyphenated Cuban-American. Richard Blanco was selected as the 2013 inaugural poet by President Barack Obama.
Named one of Library Journal’s Top 20 Poetry Books of 1998Winner of the 1997 Agnes Lynch Starrett PrizeRunner up for the Great Lakes Colleges Association 1999 New Writers AwardCity of a Hundred Fires presents us with a journey through the cultural coming of age experiences of the hyphenated Cuban-American. This distinct group, known as the Ñ Generation (as coined by Bill Teck), are the bilingual children of Cuban exiles nourished by two cultural currents—the fragmented traditions and transferred nostalgia of their parents' Caribbean homeland and the very real and present America where they grew up and live.
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