City of a Hundred Fires

Named one of Library Journals Top 20 Poetry Books of 1998 Winner of the 1997 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize Runner up for the Great Lakes Colleges Association 1999 New Writers Award City of a Hundred Fires presents us with a journey through the cultural coming of age experiences of the hyphenated Cuban-American. This distinct group, known as the Generation (as coined by Bill Teck), are the bilingual children of Cuban exiles nourished by two cultural currentsthe fragmented traditions and transferred nostalgia of their parents' Caribbean homeland and the very real and present America where they grew up and live.