Jailbreak of sparrows : poems /
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 anti-colonial uprising to the mu...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
[2025].
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| Edition: | First hardcover edition. |
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| Summary: | 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 anti-colonial uprising to the murder of a Mexican man by police in California, from the poet's adolescent brawl on a basketball court over martyred baseball hero Roberto Clemente to his unorthodox methods of representing undocumented migrants as a tenant lawyer. We also encounter "love songs" to the poet's wife from a series of unexpected voices, a bat with vertigo, the polar bear mascot for a minor league ballclub, a disembodied head in a jar. |
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| Item Description: | "A Borzoi book." |
| Physical Description: | 114 pages ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780593537121 0593537122 |