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The Prince of los Cocuyos

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by Richard Blanco

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These are the universal questions that have emerged from Richard Blanco's illuminating, story-rich poetry. Now Blanco explores these questions in this vivid account of his coming of age as the child of Cuban immigrants and his effort to contend with his burgeoning artistic and sexual identities. These are the stories of that shy yet precocious boy, known as Riqui to his family, who would grow up to be Richard Blanco, acclaimed as the first Latino and first openly gay presidential inaugural poet in U.S. history. Blanco grew up in the grip of two imaginary worlds: the Cuba of the 1950s that his family longed for and Blanco's idealized America, which seemed to exist outside the boundaries of Cuban Miami. The America of his fantasies from TV shows like evokes the complexities and glories and humor of navigating these worlds and the awakening of Riqui's homosexuality and artist's soul. Coloring books and pig roasts, opera and mambo, Easy Cheese and pork rinds Riqui negotiates these contradictions and more. His into a veritable farm with chickens and rabbits; and his mother decides to pack toilet paper and a pistol for his childhood pilgrimage to the promised land of Walt Disney World. Riqui finally finds his proverbial village as a teenager, working at the family market, El Cocuyito (The Little Firefly), lovingly mentored by its employees and customers. A prismatic and lyrical narrative rich with all the textures of Miami during the 1970s and '80s, is a resonant account of how Blanco came into his own sense of an authentic self, one that incorporated his Cuban-ness and his queerness, his American-ness and his artistic drive. Singular and universal, Blanco's story illuminates the experience of becoming through loving and loving through becoming: the way in which we are perpetually shaped by our experiences, our memories, and our stories of community and family.
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  • Jumlah Halaman

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    Penerbit

    Harper Collins

  • Tanggal Terbit

    10 Nov, 2015

    Penulis
    Richard Blanco
  • Bahasa

    Indonesia

    ISBN

    SCOOPG89960

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