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  • Jailbreak of Sparrows

    Poems

    by Martín Espada ...
    In this brilliant new collection of poems, National Book Award winner Martín Espada offers narratives of the forgotten and the unforgettable.The poems in Jailbreak of Sparrows reveal the ways in which the ordinary becomes monumental: family portraits, politically charged reports, and tributes to the unsung. Espada’s focus ranges from the bombardment of his family’s hometown in Puerto Rico amid an ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Alabanza

    New and Selected Poems 1982-2002

    by Martín Espada ...
    "An astonishing collection of political poetry at its finest."—The Progressive, Favorite Books of 2004Alabanza is a twenty-year collection charting the emergence of Martín Espada as the preeminent Latino lyric voice of his generation. "Alabanza" means "praise" in Spanish, and Espada praises the people Whitman called "them the others are down upon": the African slaves who brought their music to ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Republic of Poetry

    Poems

    by Martín Espada ...
    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, Martín Espada celebrates the power of poetry itself. The Republic of Poetry is a place of odes and elegies, collective memory and hidden history, miraculous happenings and redemptive justice. Here poets return from the dead, visit in ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • A Mayan Astronomer in Hell's Kitchen

    Poems

    by Martín Espada ...
    "Martín Espada ....forges a new poetic language."—Dennis Loy Johnson, Pittsburgh TribuneIn 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 ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Trouble Ball

    Poems

    by Martín Espada ...
    “[An] important work . . . inspiring its readers to greater human connection and to keep fighting the good fight.”—The RumpusIn this new collection of poems, Martín Espada crosses the borderlands of epiphany and blasphemy: from a pilgrimage to the tomb of Frederick Douglass to an encounter with the swimming pool at a center of torture and execution in Chile, from the adolescent discovery of poet ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Vivas to Those Who Have Failed

    Poems

    by Martín Espada ...
    Award-winning poet Martín Espada gives voice to the spirit of endurance in the face of loss.In this powerful new collection of poems, Martín Espada articulates the transcendent vision of another, possible world. He invokes the words of Whitman in “Vivas to Those Who Have Failed,” a cycle of sonnets about the Paterson Silk Strike and the immigrant laborers who envisioned an eight-hour workday. At ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Floaters

    Poems

    by Martín Espada ...
    **Winner of the 2021 National Book Award for PoetryFrom the winner of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize come masterfully crafted narratives of protest, grief and love.**Martín 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 ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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    Jailbreak of Sparrows

    Poems

    by Martín Espada ...
    Narrated by Martín Espada ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 54 min

    In this brilliant new collection of poems, National Book Award winner Martín Espada offers narratives of the forgotten and the unforgettable.The poems in Jailbreak of Sparrows reveal the ways in which the ordinary becomes monumental: family portraits, politically charged reports, and tributes to the unsung. Espada’s focus ranges from the bombardment of his family’s hometown in Puerto Rico amid an ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Goodbye, Mexico

    Poems of Remembrance

    by Sarah Cortez, Paul David Adkins, Diane Anhalt, Jose Angel Araguz, Jack B. Bedell, Diane Gonzales Bertrand, Alan Birkelbach, David Bowels, Jerry Bradley, Augustin Caden0, Abigail Carl-Klassen1, Sherry Craven2, Carolyn Dahl3, Jim Daniels4, Margo Davis5, Martin Espada6, Maureen Tolman Flannery7, Christa Forster8, James Hoggard9, Ann Howells0, Elizabeth Humber1, Lois P. Jones2, Kate Kingston3, AM Krohn4, Peter Ludwin5, Tony Mares6, Paul Mariani7, Kathleen Markowitz8, C.M. Mayo9, Janet McCann0, Celeste Guzman Mendoza1, karla k. morton2, Erin O'Luanaigh3, Carol C. Reposa4, Alberto Rios5, Jan Seale6, Martha Serpas7, Seth Strickland8, Loueva Smith9, Sandi Stromberg0, Melissa Studdard1, Larry D. Thomas2, C. Derick Varn3, Randall Watson4, Germaine Welch5, Patrick Allen Wright6, Rebecca Young Eunn Yook7 ...
    This anthology gathers the strong voices of accomplished poets reaching into and beyond nostalgia to remember, to honor, and to document through figurative imagery their experiences of Mexico and the vibrant border areas before the ravages of narco-violence.Locals Listen to the Mariachi Band at El Jardin in San MiguelYou see their silhouettes along the stone wallor arm in arm below the glow of ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Psalms of the Dining Room

    by Lauren Schmidt ...
    "In Psalms of the Dining Room, Lauren Schmidt lays down riffs like a fierce blues guitarist, one who knows the power of each carefully chosen note. These poems explode with tough compassion. They sting a little bit--they make us flinch in recognition. Schmidt's sharply etched details tell the powerful stories of her characters' struggles to be seen, to be acknowledged as human. These poems remind ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Concrete River

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