Short Stories/Novellas

"I'd like to believe I've willed every detail / of my life, but I'm a consequence, a drop / of rain, a seed fallen by chance, here," Richard Blanco writes in Place of Mind, a series of portraits that continues to explore the intersections of place and memory begun in City of a Hundred Fires and expanded in Directions to the Beach of the Dead. Blanco's third collection, Looking for the Gulf Motel, is forthcoming from the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2012.