Matters of the Sea/Cosas del Mar: A Poem Commemorating a New Era in Us - Cuba Relations - The Poetry Shop

Matters of the Sea/Cosas del Mar: A Poem Commemorating a New Era in Us-Cuba Relations

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University of Pittsburgh Press

Matters of the Sea/Cosas del Mar: A Poem Commemorating a New Era in Us-Cuba Relations

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Matters of the Sea / Cosas del mar is a commemorative bilingual chapbook that beautifully reproduces Richard Blanco's stirring poem presented during the historic reopening ceremony of the United States Embassy in Havana, Cuba, on August 14, 2015."Matters of the Sea is one of the most emotionally complex and personal poems I've ever written, invested with all my love for the people of two countries that are part of my very being. As with the presidential inauguration in 2013, I am once again humbled and honored to participate as a poet in another historic moment of such significance. I'm elated by the power of poetry to mark such important, communal moments and to be a catalyst for change and understanding by reaching deep into our emotional selves and connecting us to our shared humanity."--Richard Blanco

Book Details

ISBN:
9780822964001
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
48
Authors:
Richard Blanco
Published Date:
2015-09-30
Language:
English

About Richard Blanco

Richard Blanco read One Today at President Obama's second inauguration in 2013, the fifth inaugural poet in United States history and the first Latino, immigrant, and openly gay person in the role. Born in Madrid, Spain, he grew up in Miami and studied engineering and creative writing at Florida International University, earning his MFA there. His collection City of a Hundred Fires (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998) won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. Later books include How to Love a Country (Beacon Press, 2019). He received the Paterson Poetry Prize and the 2021 National Humanities Medal.

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