Looking for The Gulf Motel
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Looking for The Gulf Motel

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eBook - ePub

Looking for The Gulf Motel

About this book

Family continues to be a wellspring of inspiration and learning for Blanco. His third book of poetry, Looking for The Gulf Motel is a genealogy of the heart, exploring how his family's emotional legacy has shaped—and continues shaping—his perspectives. The collection is presented in three movements, each one chronicling his understanding of a particular facet of life from childhood into adulthood. As a child born into the milieu of his Cuban exiled familia, the first movement delves into early questions of cultural identity and their evolution into his unrelenting sense of displacement and quest for the elusive meaning of home. The second begins with poems peering back into family again, examining the blurred lines of gender, the frailty of his father-son relationship, and the intersection of his cultural and sexual identities as a Cuban-American gay man living in rural Maine. In the last movement, poems focused on his mother's life shaped by exile, his father's death, and the passing of a generation of relatives, all provide lessons about his own impermanence in the world and the permanence of loss. Looking for the Gulf Motel is looking for the beauty of that which we cannot hold onto, be it country, family, or love.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Looking for The Gulf Motel
  7. The Name I Wanted:
  8. Betting on America
  9. TĂ­a Margarita Johnson's House in Hollywood
  10. Cousin Consuelo, On Piano
  11. Taking My Cousin's Photo at the Statue Of Liberty
  12. Of Consequence, Inconsequently
  13. The Island Within
  14. Poem Between Havana and Varadero
  15. Habla Cuba Speaking:
  16. 5:00 AM in Cuba
  17. Practice Problem
  18. El Florida Room
  19. Sitting on My Mother's Porch in Westchester, Florida
  20. Playing House with PepĂ­n
  21. Afternoons as Endora
  22. Queer Theory: According to My Grandmother
  23. Abuelo in a Western
  24. The Port Pilot
  25. My Brother on Mt. Barker
  26. PapĂĄ at the Kitchen Table
  27. My Father, My Hands
  28. Love as if Love
  29. Maybe
  30. Cheers to Hyakutake
  31. Thicker Than Country
  32. Killing Mark
  33. Love Poem According to Quantum Theory
  34. Birthday Portrait
  35. MamĂĄ with Indians: 1973, 2007
  36. Venus in Miami Beach
  37. Cooking with MamĂĄ in Maine
  38. House of the Virgin Mary
  39. Mi Rosa y Mi Sal
  40. Questioning My Cousin Elena
  41. Remembering What TĂ­a Noelia Can't
  42. Unspoken Elegy for TĂ­a Cucha
  43. Bones, Teeth
  44. Burning in the Rain
  45. Place of Mind
  46. Some Days the Sea
  47. Since Unfinished
  48. Acknowledgments