- Alabanza: New and Selected Poems
"Martin Espada weilds his poetry like a flint, striking sparks, cutting to the bone. To read this work is to be struck breathless, and surely to come away changed."
-Barbara Kingsolver - Crucifixion in the Plaza de Armas
A collection of Poems about a wide variety of subjects From the different meanings of his name; Espada means "sword" in spanish, to Colonialism and the movement for independence. Also detailed in this book are the Ponce Massacre and the life and struggle of Clemente Soto Velez, a poet who was imprisoned for 'seditious conspiracy.' On top of all this he is searching the mountains for the grave of his great- grandfather - La Tumba de Buenaventura Roig
- A Mayan Astronomer in Hell's Kitchen
- The Republic of Poetry
- Poetry Like Bread: Poets of the Political Imagination from Curbstone Poets
- El Coro: A Chorus of Latino and Latina Poetry
- Last Summer
- Toward Anguish
- Rebellion is the Circle of a Lover's Hands
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
The Works of Poetry by Espada
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