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City of Coughing and Dead Radiators
Häftad, 1994
137 kr
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"With this fine new collection," says Library Journal, Martín Espada "joins the top ranks of poets anywhere"; in the words of Earl Shorris, he is "well on his way to becoming the Latino poet of his generation."
Imagine the Angels of Bread
Poems
Häftad, 1997
255 kr
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Combining the personal with the political in his fifth collection, Martín Espada celebrates the bread of the imagination, the bread of the table, and the bread of justice. The heart of the collection is a series of autobiographical poems recalling family, school, neighborhood, and work …
Mayan Astronomer in Hell's Kitchen
Poems
Häftad, 2001
352 kr
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In his sixth collection, American Book Award winner Martín Espada has created a poetic mural. There are conquerors, slaves, and rebels from Caribbean history; the "Mayan astronomer" calmly smoking a cigarette in the middle of a New York tenement fire; a nun staging a White House vigil to protest …
Alabanza
New and Selected Poems 1982-2002
Häftad, 2004
247 kr
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Alabanza is a twenty-year collection charting the emergence of Martín Espada as the preeminent Latino lyric voice of his generation. "Alabanza" means "praise" in Spanish, and Espada praises the people Whitman called "them the others are down upon": the African slaves who brought their music to …
Republic of Poetry
Poems
Häftad, 2008
238 kr
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In his eighth collection of poems, Martín Espada celebrates the power of poetry itself. The Republic of Poetry is a place of odes and elegies, collective memory and hidden history, miraculous happenings and redemptive justice. Here poets return from the dead, visit in dreams, even rent a helicopter …
Trouble Ball
Poems
Häftad, 2012
255 kr
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In this new collection of poems, Martín Espada crosses the borderlands of epiphany and blasphemy: from a pilgrimage to the tomb of Frederick Douglass to an encounter with the swimming pool at a center of torture and execution in Chile, from the adolescent discovery of poet Omar Khayyám to the death …
Lover of a Subversive Is Also a Subversive
Essays and Commentaries
Häftad, 2010
443 kr
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Prior praise for Martín Espada:"Political poetry at its finest…with his soaring lyrics, Espada broadens our appreciation not only of poetry but of resistance itself."---The Progressive "(Espada) writes beautiful poems about terrible realities."---San Francisco Chronicle A volume in the Poets on …
Zapata’s Disciple
Essays
Häftad, 2016
221 kr
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The ferocious acumen with which the award-winning poet Martín Espada attacks issues of social injustice in Zapata’s Disciple makes it no surprise that the book has been the subject of bans in both Arizona and Texas, targeted for its presence in the Mexican American Studies curriculum of Tucson’s …
What Saves Us
Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump
Häftad, 2019
313 kr
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This is an anthology of poems in the Age of Trump—about much more than Trump. These are poems that either embody or express a sense of empathy or outrage, both prior to and following his election, since it is empathy the president lacks and outrage he provokes.There is an extraordinary diversity of …
His Hands Were Gentle: Selected Lyrics of Víctor Jara
Häftad, 2012
126 kr
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His Hands Were Gentle brings together, for the first time in both Spanish and English, the best of Víctor Jara's lyrics, from early songs like 'El arado' ('The Plow') to 'Estadio Chile' ('In the Stadium'), written in the hours before his execution. With a Preface by the actress and screenwriter …
The Necessary Poetics of Atheism: Essays and Poems
Av Martín Espada, Lauren Marie Schmidt
Häftad, 2016
215 kr
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Resistance
DoveTales Summer 2020, Issue III
Av Martín Espada, Maija Rhee Devine m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
485 kr
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Floaters
Poems
Häftad, 2022
181 kr
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Martín Espada is a poet who "stirs in us an undeniable social consciousness," says Richard Blanco. Floaters offers exuberant odes and defiant elegies, songs of protest and songs of love from one of the essential voices in American poetry.Floaters takes its title from a term used by certain Border …
Coro, El
Chorus of Latino/Latina Poetry
Häftad, 1997
377 kr
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This is an anthology of work by Latino and Latina poets, which reveals a diversity of form and content. Among the poets are former farm workers and gang members, a physician, a chef and a Vietnam veteran. The variety of experience demonstrates that there is no single ""Latino/a outlook"".
Flytare
Häftad, 2023
250 kr
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Flytare är den amerikanska gränspolisens benämning på de oftast latinamerikanska migranter som med oroväckande regelbundenhet påträffas drunknade längs gränsen mellan USA och Mexiko. I den puertoricansk-amerikanske poeten Martín Espadas diktsamling med samma namn blir begreppet utgångspunkt för en …
Trouble Ball
Poems
Inbunden, 2011
261 kr
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In this collection of poems, Martín Espada crosses the borderlands of epiphany and blasphemy: Ebbets Field, Brooklyn, in 1941, where his Puerto Rican father realizes, at the age of eleven, that dark-skinned players are not allowed on the field; the swimming pool for guards and their families at …
Vivas to Those Who Have Failed
Poems
Inbunden, 2016
235 kr
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In this powerful new collection of poems, Martín Espada articulates the transcendent vision of another, possible world. He invokes the words of Whitman in “Vivas to Those Who Have Failed,” a cycle of sonnets about the Paterson Silk Strike and the immigrant laborers who envisioned an eight-hour …
Vivas to Those Who Have Failed
Poems
Häftad, 2017
168 kr
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In this powerful new collection of poems, Martín Espada articulates the transcendent vision of another, possible world. He invokes the words of Whitman in “Vivas to Those Who Have Failed,” a cycle of sonnets about the Paterson Silk Strike and the immigrant laborers who envisioned an eight-hour …
Floaters
Poems
Inbunden, 2021
301 kr
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Martín Espada is a poet who "stirs in us an undeniable social consciousness," says Richard Blanco. Floaters offers exuberant odes and defiant elegies, songs of protest and songs of love from one of the essential voices in American poetry.Floaters takes its title from a term used by certain Border …
Lover of a Subversive Is Also a Subversive
Essays and Commentaries
Inbunden, 2010
1381 kr
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Prior praise for Martín Espada:"Political poetry at its finest…with his soaring lyrics, Espada broadens our appreciation not only of poetry but of resistance itself."---The Progressive "(Espada) writes beautiful poems about terrible realities."---San Francisco Chronicle A volume in the Poets on …
Rebellion Is the Circle of a Lover's Hands/Rebelió
Häftad, 1995
218 kr
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Poems in English and Spanish that discuss what it means to be Puerto Rican in the United States today.
Poetry Like Bread, New Expanded Edition
Poets of the Political Imagination from Curbstone Press
Av Martín Espada, Martín Espada
Häftad, 2000
234 kr
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Poetry Like Bread contains poems by nearly forty poets published by the Curbstone Press during the last twenty years. These poets are probably unlike any you have studied. Their engagement with everyday political and economic realities is as direct as a newspaper, their language as familiar as …
