Prior praise for Martin 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 Poetry series, which collects critical
works by contemporary poets, gathering together the articles,
interviews, and book reviews by which they have articulated the
poetics of a new generation.
This collection of essays on poetry and politics comes from the
man the "New York Times" predicted would become "the Latino poet of
his generation" and whom Sandra Cisneros called "the Pablo Neruda
of North American authors."
Martin Espada defends what Walt Whitman called, "the rights of
them the others are down upon." He invokes the spirit of
poet-advocates such as Whitman and Edgar Lee Masters to explore his
own history as a poet and tenant lawyer in Boston's Latino
community. He celebrates the poets of Puerto Rico, imprisoned for
espousing the cause of independence, and the poets of the Bronx,
writing bilingual poems in the voices of the dead.
Espada writes of forgotten places and reminds us of the poet's
responsibility to remember, as Pablo Neruda remembers the anonymous
builders of Machu Picchu or Sterling Brown remembers the slave
uprising of Nat Turner. He argues that poets should embrace the
role of Shelley's "unacknowledged legislator" in their work as
writers and in their lives as citizens. He challenges the
conventional wisdom that poetry and politics are mutually
exclusive, and rejects the poetics of self-marginalization, in
keeping with Adrian Mitchell's dictum that, "most people ignore
most poetry because most poetry ignores most people."
Martin Espada has published seventeen books as a poet, editor,
and translator. "The Republic of Poetry," a collection of poems,
received a Paterson Award for Sustained Literary Achievement and
was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize." Imagine the Angels of
Bread" won an American Book Award and was a finalist for the
National Book Critics Circle Award. He has received numerous
fellowships and awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and the
National Hispanic Cultural Center Literary Award. Espada is a
Professor of English at the University of
Massachusetts-Amherst.
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