Martin 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 Patrol agents to describe
migrants who drown trying to cross over. The title poem responds to
the viral photograph of Oscar and Valeria, a Salvadoran father and
daughter who drowned in the Rio Grande, and allegations posted in
the "I'm 10-15" Border Patrol Facebook group that the photo was
faked. Espada bears eloquent witness to confrontations with
anti-immigrant bigotry as a tenant lawyer years ago, and now sings
the praises of Central American adolescents kicking soccer balls
over a barbed wire fence in an internment camp founded on that same
bigotry. He also knows that times of hate call for poems of
love-even in the voice of a cantankerous Galapagos tortoise. The
collection ranges from historical epic to achingly personal lyrics
about growing up, the baseball that drops from the sky and smacks
Espada in the eye as he contemplates a girl's gently racist
question. Whether celebrating the visionaries-the fallen dreamers,
rebels and poets-or condemning the outrageous governmental neglect
of his father's Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria, Espada
invokes ferocious, incandescent spirits.
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