Books by Martin Espada and Complete Book Reviews

Martin Espada, Author . Norton $23.95 (63p) ISBN 978-0-393-06256-4
Espada's compact, forceful follow-up to his well-received new-and-selected, Alabanza (2004), describes, in its three parts, three versions of his "republic." The first is Chile, where the Massachusetts-based, Brooklyn-bred poet has...
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Martin Espada, Author W. W. Norton & Company $17.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-393-03555-1
In his fourth book, Espada ( Rebellion Is the Circle of a Lover's Hands ) writes powerfully of the disenfranchised urban Latino poor: ``I cannot evict them / from my insomniac nights.'' The poetry has a direct, proclamatory tone, at its best when...
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Martin Espada, Author W. W. Norton & Company $21 (84p) ISBN 978-0-393-04888-9
Espada, a frequent contributor to National Public Radio's various news programs, can keep his magic-inflected tone light even when engaging social disparity: ""As I was about/ to put a quarter/ in the parking meter,/ a man walking by/ stopped,...
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Martin Espada, Author W. W. Norton & Company $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-393-05192-6
The number of titles published during National Poetry Month strained this column's space, but the following titles can just as easily help celebrate the solstice. The title poem of Mart n Espada's Alabanza: New And Selected Poems 1982- 2002, is...
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