"Journey to the Beach of the Dead" typescript, 2005

A typescript of Blanco's second book of poetry, Directions to the Beach of the Dead (2005), with an earlier title "Journey to the Beach of the Dead." This typescript was the version he sent to publishers; the extensive edits were made to poems including "November Crosswords" ("Empty Crosswords" in the published edition), "Brothers," "No More Than This, Provincetown," and "Sending Palms in a Letter." This manuscript contains several poems not published in the final version, such as "Missouri Between Venice and Paris," "Some Nights on the Back Porch," and "Nature Over Coffee."