City of a hundred fires
Document Type
Thesis
Degree
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Major/Program
Creative Writing
First Advisor's Name
Campbell McGrath
First Advisor's Committee Title
Committee Chair
Second Advisor's Name
Dan Wakefield
Third Advisor's Name
Mary Jane Elkins
Date of Defense
3-18-1997
Abstract
These poems capture the "coming of age" experiences encountered by a Cuban-American narrator in the United States and in Cuba. The poems in the book appear chronologically, that is to say, not in the order they were written, but according to the age of the poet-speaker, ranging from early adolescence to young adulthood. The poems in Part I reveal the fragmented traditions and heritage inherited by a first generation Cuban-American, while questioning the complex merging of the two cultures encountered by the poet-speaker. In Part II, the majority of the poems are set in Cuba, as the poet-speaker travels through the living history of his "homeland" to explore the cultural roots discovered in its landscapes, traditions, relatives and towns, like Cienfuegos-"the city of a hundred fires". The style and language of the poetry become unique to the poet-speaker's own cultural vision, the Cuban-American experience transformed to lyric poetry.
Identifier
FI14051166
Recommended Citation
Blanco, Ricardo De Jesus, "City of a hundred fires" (1997). FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 1693.
https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1693
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