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University of Pittsburgh Press
March 2012
On Sale: February 28, 2012
83 pages
ISBN: 0822962012
EAN: 9780822962014
Kindle: B00C1YJ4I2
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Literature and Fiction | Fiction Poetry
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 emotion 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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