Prince of los cocuyos a miami childhood comes out in the fall of 2014. Youre watching booktv on cspan2s, television for serious readers. [inaudible conversations] next from Bookexpo America Panel Discussion on how technology is affecting publishing content. Bookexpo america is an annual trade show for the Publishing Industry thats features authors events educational panels and information on soontobe published books. This is a little under an hour. [inaudible conversations] thank you all for attending the media is the message. Really appreciate your coming here today and i think youre going to have a great panel that is going to give you some really interesting information about what is going on in our increasingly multimedia world. We are going to start off with. Or Adeena Karasick from Fordham University who is going to be present in a a powerpoint multimedia with vide. Its quite an amazing creation. And adeena is a great expert at putting it together so i will introduce her and we w
[inaudible conversations] Richard Blanco what is los cocuyos . Its a firefight. Technically its a kind of a firefly that is very, its very mythical in cuba as well as south florida where i grew up and there is sort of a full tale and folklore. Women used to clip beatles on as a reporting ritual. Thats part of the title but its also the name of my uncles Grocery Store in the book which is kind of where i grew up in a way, kind of where i came to really connect with my culture and my heritage by working a cuban Grocery Store in miami. The book takes its title from that store and the idea of prints los cocuyos the old adage is it takes a village. The book centers a lot around the growing up in being sort of ushered in connected to my heritage by cubanamerican heritage through all the various people in the village in my community. So the story plays a central role in that are all the customers and all the regulars but ive formed relationships with. Thats the gist of the title so im elevate
Too. It makes its own demands and its a whole other set of qualities. You could be a great writer, a great poet and be a horrible teacher. You could be a great teacher and a horrible poet. But yeah, thats about the one way that poets earn a living. You still practice in giving . I was until about a year and a half ago, ever since the explosion of the inauguration. Im traveling about 80 of my time because of the magnitude and the exposure that the inauguration gives me, and gives poetry. People are calling from the most unexpected places. Next week i have to read at the federal reserve. Im reading at engineering firms. Im reading at so all this has kept me quite busy, and happily so. I also feel a sense of purpose and mission in the sense of just exposing people to poetry that are not the usual suspects, and to watch the eyes light up and people realize that poetry isnt what they thought it was, that poetry is still a vibrant, relevant art, that its not something stuck in a High School
Its slightly outrageous, i admit that, that she does it so seriously from how they were used for religious purposes, how soldiers would collect severed heads. She showed us how great figures, poets, had their heads severed. She doesnt do this by setting said which i was shocked that iliwould be personally drawn ta history of severed heads. But she tells us about a part of human collecting which i never knit existed before, which sheds light and insight on larger history itself. Bob weil, publishing director of liveright. And booktv is on location at expo america. This is the publishers annual trade show. Is a lot of crowds here. Once he of the publishers get together and talk about their upcoming fall books. Youre watching booktv on cspan2. Youre watching 48 hours of Nonfiction Authors and books on cspan2s booktv. Television for serious readers. Not join us on booktv is clive priddle, the publisher of Public Affairs. When the Public Affairs get started . Its her birthday, today. Where
Juxtaposition to my grandmother who was a big character in the story it was very and xenophobic so how she shaped my life as well and part of the reason i became an engineer was because of that and in pursuit of a career in the arts early on. In this book you sort of see you are reading i would hope you are reading with the context of this little kid who i am showing you eventually grows up and has this amazing moment in history. Wide view open the story with a wave of . Host in some ways she is the cause of a lot of trauma and she was very verbally abusive and very homophobic as i said and xenophobic. But on the flip side of that ironically in some way she made me a writer because she made me were withdrawn and maybe an observer of the world versus a participant. Also that led me to become, to learn how to read people. I had to know how to read people to know how to respond and not get called a you know what by her by others. All that power of observation and reading in between the li