8vo, pp.63. Printed wraps. Boldly inscribed to poet William Jay Smith on the title page: For Bill | A Poet | in the spirit | of Lorca | with admiration | Martin Espada | February 21, | 2003 | Cummington, | MA" This work was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. From Wikipedia: "Mart�n Espada (born 1957) is a Latino poet, and professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he teaches poetry. Puerto Rico has frequently been featured as a theme in his poems . Espada was born in Brooklyn, New York. He was introduced to political activism at an early age by his father, a leader in the Puerto Rican community and the civil rights movement. Espada received a B.A. in history from the University of Wisconsin Madison and a J.D. from Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusetts). For many years, he worked as a tenant lawyer and a supervisor of a legal services program. In 1982, Espada published his first book of political poems, The Immigrant Iceboy's Bolero, featuring photography by his father. This was followed by Trumpets from the Islands of their Eviction (1987) and Rebellion is the Circle of a Lover's Hands.In 2001, he was named the first Poet Laureate of Northampton, Massachusetts".

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THE REPUBLIC OF POETRY; Poems

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Norton, NY

Fecha de publicaci�n

2008

Idioma

Ingl�s

ISBN 10

0393331407

ISBN 13

9780393331400

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First paperback edn.

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In his eighth collection of poems, Mart�n 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 dreams, even rent a helicopter to drop poems on bookmarks.

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Mart�n Espada has published more than twenty books as a poet, editor, essayist and translator, including Vivas to Those Who Have Failed and Pulitzer finalist The Republic of Poetry. His many honors include the Ruth Lilly Prize, the Shelley Memorial Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Born in Brooklyn, he now lives in western Massachusetts.

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