Sixteen poems by Richard Blanco are in Place of Mind. Eleven of these are from Directions to the Beach of the Dead and five are new uncollected work.

from uncollected new work

Looking for the Gulf Motel, Marco Island, Florida
Problems Chapter 4
Some Days the Sea
Love Poem According to Quantum Theory
Place of Mind Pantoum

from Directions to The Beach of the Dead

Papa’s Bridge
We’re Not Going to Malta
Directions to The Beach of the Dead
Letter to Nowhere
Only Brothers
Pirenópolis
Crossing Boston Harbor
Perfect City Code
Somewhere to Paris
No More Than This, Provincetown

Richard Blanco was "made in Cuba, assembled in Spain, and imported to the United States," where he was raised in Miami. A builder of bridges and poems, Blanco earned a BS in Civil Engineering and an MFA in Creative Writing from Florida International University. His acclaimed first book of poetry, City of a Hundred Fires, explores the negotiation of cultural identity as a Cuban-American. His second book, Directions to the Beach of the Dead, continues to explore themes of home, place, and identity.

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