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Martín Espada Floaters (Paperback)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: FloatersCondition: NewSubtitle: PoemsISBN-10: 1324021810EAN: 9781324021810ISBN: 9781324021810Publisher: WW Norton & CoFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 06/10/2022Description: 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. Floaters takes its title from a term used by certain Border Patrol agents to describe migrants who drown trying to cross over. The title poem responds to the viral photograph of Óscar and Valeria, a Salvadoran father and daughter who drowned in the Río Grande, and allegations posted in the "I’m 10-15" Border Patrol Facebook group that the photo was faked. Espada bears eloquent witness to confrontations with anti-immigrant bigotry as a tenant lawyer years ago, and now sings the praises of Central American adolescents kicking soccer balls over a barbed wire fence in an internment camp founded on that same bigotry. He also knows that times of hate call for poems of love—even in the voice of a cantankerous Galápagos tortoise. The collection ranges from historical epic to achingly personal lyrics about growing up, the baseball that drops from the sky and smacks Espada in the eye as he contemplates a girl’s gently racist question. Whether celebrating the visionaries—the fallen dreamers, rebels and poets—or condemning the outrageous governmental neglect of his father’s Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane María, Espada invokes ferocious, incandescent spirits.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 213mmItem Length: 157mmItem Width: 10mmItem Weight: 102gAuthor: Martín EspadaGenre: Poetry & DramaRelease Year: 2022 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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Publication Name: Floaters

Title: Floaters

Subtitle: Poems

ISBN-10: 1324021810

EAN: 9781324021810

ISBN: 9781324021810

Release Date: 06/10/2022

Release Year: 2022

Country/Region of Manufacture: US

Book Title: Floaters : Poems

Number of Pages: 80 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.

Publication Year: 2022

Topic: Women, Aviation / Commercial, American / Hispanic American

Item Height: 0.3 in

Genre: Transportation, Poetry, Biography & Autobiography

Item Weight: 3.6 Oz

Author: Martín Espada

Item Length: 8.2 in

Item Width: 6.1 in

Format: Trade Paperback

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