Floaters : poems /
From the winner of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize come masterfully crafted narratives of protest, grief, and love. 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...
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New York :
W. W. Norton & Company,
[2021].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- I. Jumping Off The Mystic Tobin Bridge
- Jumping Off the Mystic Tobin Bridge
- Floaters
- Ode to the Soccer Ball Sailing Over a Barbed-Wire Fence
- Not for Him the Fiery Lake of the False Prophet
- Boxer Wears America 1st Shorts in Bout With Mexican, Finishes Second
- Mazen Sleeps With His Foot on the Floor
- I Now Pronounce You Dead
- II. Asking Questions Of The Moon
- The Story of How We Came to America
- Why I Wait for the Soggy Tarantula of Spinach
- The Stoplight at the Corner Where Somebody Had to Die
- Death Rides the Elevator in Brooklyn
- The Cannon on the Hood of My Father's Car
- Asking Questions of the Moon
- Standing on the Bridge at Dolceacqua
- III. Love Song Of The Kraken
- Aubade With Concussion
- I Would Steal a Car for You
- That We Will Sing
- Love Song of the Kraken
- Love Song of the Galapagos Tortoise
- Love is a Luminous Insect at the Window
- Insulting the Prince
- The Assassination of the Landlord's Purple Vintage 1976 Monte Carlo
- Iv. Morir Sonando
- Remake of Me the Sickle for Thy Grain
- Be There When They Swarm Me
- The Bard Shakes the Snow From the Trees
- Flan
- Morir Sonando
- The Five Horses of Doctor Ramon Emeterio Betances
- Letter to My Father.