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"Martín Espada ....forges a new poetic language."--Dennis Loy Johnson, Pittsburgh Tribune

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 her torture; a man on death row mourning the loss of his books; and even Carmen Miranda.

Tabla de contenidos provista por Syndetics

• I A Tarantula in the Bananas
• My Name Is Espada(p. 15)
• Preciosa Like a Last Cup of Coffee(p. 17)
• The Shiny Aluminum of God(p. 19)
• My Father As a Guitar(p. 22)
• For the Jim Crow Mexican Restaurant in Cambridge, Massachusetts Where My Cousin Esteban Was Forbidden to Wait Tables Because He Wears Dreadlocks(p. 23)
• Pegao(p. 25)
• The Governor of Puerto Rico Reveals at His Inaugural That He Is the Reincarnation of Ponce de Leon(p. 26)
• Ornithology at the Caribe Hilton(p. 28)
• The Rage of Plantation Days(p. 30)
• What Francisco Luis Espada Learned at Age Five, Standing on the Dock(p. 31)
• II A Mayan Astronomer in Hell's Kitchen
• The Mexican Cabdriver's Poem for His Wife, Who Has Left Him(p. 35)
• A Mayan Astronomer in Hell's Kitchen(p. 36)
• The Janitor's Garden(p. 37)
• The Death of Carmen Miranda(p. 39)
• The Community College Revises Its Curriculum in Response to Changing Demographics(p. 40)
• Thanksgiving(p. 41)
• Pitching the Potatoes(p. 43)
• Genuflection in Right Field(p. 45)
• The Ghost in the Trunk of the Car(p. 47)
• The Man Who Owns the Dumpster Owns the Books(p. 50)
• Ode to Your Earrings(p. 52)
• I Apologize for Giving You Poison Ivy by Smacking You in the Eye with the Crayfish at the End of My Fishing Line(p. 54)
• Why I Went to College(p. 56)
• III A Library of Lions
• Crucifixion in the Plaza de Armas(p. 59)
• Companero Poet and the Surveillance of Sheep(p. 60)
• A Cigarette's Iris in the Eye of a Candle(p. 63)
• Anarchism and the Parking Meter(p. 66)
• The Carpenter Swam to Spain(p. 67)
• The Eleventh Reason(p. 70)
• Another Nameless Prostitute Says the Man Is Innocent(p. 74)
• Prisoner AM-8335 and His Library of Lions(p. 78)
• The River Will Not Testify(p. 80)
• Glossary(p. 83)
• Biographical Note(p. 86)

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Martin Espada is the winner of an American Book Award & a finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle Award. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.

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