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Ecco
October 2014
On Sale: September 30, 2014
Featuring: Richard Blanco
272 pages
ISBN: 0062313762
EAN: 9780062313768
Kindle: B00HPWVW3A
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Non-Fiction Memoir
A poignant, hilarious, and inspiring memoir from the first
Latino and openly gay inaugural poet, which explores his
coming-of-age as the child of Cuban immigrants and his
attempts to understand his place in America while grappling
with his burgeoning artistic and sexual
identities. Richard Blanco’s childhood and adolescence
were experienced between two imaginary worlds: his parents’
nostalgic world of 1950s Cuba and his imagined America, the
country he saw on reruns of The Brady Bunch and
Leave it to Beaver—an “exotic” life he yearned for
as much as he yearned to see “la patria.” Navigating
these worlds eventually led Blanco to question his cultural
identity through words; in turn, his vision as a writer—as
an artist—prompted the courage to accept himself as a gay
man. In this moving, contemplative memoir, the 2013
inaugural poet traces his poignant, often hilarious, and
quintessentially American coming-of-age and the people who
influenced him. A prismatic and lyrical narrative rich
with the colors, sounds, smells, and textures of Miami,
Richard Blanco’s personal narrative is a resonant account of
how he discovered his authentic self and ultimately, a
deeper understanding of what it means to be American. His is
a singular yet universal story that beautifully illuminates
the experience of “becoming;” how we are shaped by
experiences, memories, and our complex stories: the humor,
love, yearning, and tenderness that define a life.
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