“[An] important work . . . inspiring its readers to greater human connection and to keep fighting the good fight.”―The Rumpus
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 of an "illegal" Mexican immigrant."synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
Martín Espada is the author of fourteen collections of poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Republic of Poetry and, most recently, Vivas to Those Who Have Failed. His many honors include the Ruth Lilly Prize, the Shelley Memorial Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He teaches at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst.
Espada 's avuncular charm his warm, earnest, sly voice finds intimacy in the lives of public figures and emblematic weight in his own stories . . . playful, earthy, both welcoming and roaring its vision of inclusion and fairness. . . . [T]he book enacts this ethos beautifully.
Espada s avuncular charm his warm, earnest, sly voice finds intimacy in the lives of public figures and emblematic weight in his own stories . . . playful, earthy, both welcoming and roaring its vision of inclusion and fairness. . . . [T]he book enacts this ethos beautifully. "
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