In his 6th collection, American Book Award winner Martin 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; and a man on death row mourning the loss of his books. Format:Paperback Pages:88
The heart of this collection is a cycle of Chile poems by "the Pablo Neruda of North American authors" (Sandra Cisneros). In his eighth collection of poems...more details Format:Hardback Pages:96
The eighth collection by "the Pablo Neruda of North American authors" (Sandra Cisneros) was a finalist for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize. In his eighth collection of poems...more details Format:Paperback