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W. W. Norton, hardcover
Publication Date: January 19, 2021
Publisher Marketing: Winner of the 2021 National Book Award for Poetry
In this collection, Martín Espada bears witness to confrontation with anti-immigrant bigotry as a tenant lawyer years ago, and now sings the praises of Central American adolescents playing soccer in an internment camp founded on that same bigotry. He knows that times of hate also call for poems of love–even in the voice of a Galápagos tortoise. Whether celebrating the visions of fallen dreamers and poets or condemning the devastation of Hurricane Maria in his father’s Puerto Rico, and the outrageous inadequacy of the government response, Espada invokes ferocious, incandescent spirits.
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