Floaters: Poems

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Espada has dedicated himself to the pursuit of social justice and fighting for the rights of Latino/a communities. Martín Espada has long established himself as one of our most prolific and important poets, his body of work a canon unto itself. Espada is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, where he teaches creative writing and the work of Pablo Neruda.

Espada also marshals righteous fury for those who oppress the helpless and impoverished, and for bigots of all types (and he's met many). University of Massachusetts Amherst English professor and poet Martín Espada has won the National Book Award for his book “Floaters,” a collection of poetry that runs from scathing socio-political commentary to homages of family and love.

May have some underlining and highlighting of text and some writing in the margins, but there are no missing pages or anything else that would compromise the readability or legibility of the text. If no break or hemorrhage is found on examination, a repeat dilated exam with scleral depression needs to occur in 2 to 4 weeks. Espada’s elegies for the people and places that nurtured him combine tenderness and ferocity in in equal measure. Plying his trade with the TRAVELING WILBURYs for a spell in the late 80s, Roy Orbison saw a major posthumous uptick in career in the early nineties after the revival of his 1964 hit inspired by his wife Claudette.Some novels are interesting when they’re first released because they deal with a contemporary event that’s fresh in the reader’s mind. If at 2 to 4 weeks, no detachment is seen, then repeat the dilated exam at three months and six months from the original onset of symptoms. 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. In his dynamic new book, Martín Espada is a fierce activist in verse, decrying, with accuracy and urgency, the depravity of inhumane detention and acute bigotry.

Martín Espada won a National Book Award for this book, yet I wish it was talked about more, taught in high school classes and college courses. He has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the Robert Creeley Award, the Antonia Pantoja Award, an Independent Publisher Book Award, a Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, the Charity Randall Citation, the Paterson Poetry Prize, the PEN/Revson Fellowship and two NEA Fellowships. Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages.I think anyone can understand the appeal of Espada's employment of repetition, both on a sonic and symbolic level. His last book, Alabanza: New and Selected Poems, 1982-2002 (Norton, 2003), received the Paterson Award for Sustained Literary Achievement and was named an American Library Association Notable Book of the Year. A racist encounter with a cab driver in a rush-hour ride over the Mystic Tobin Bridge; incarcerated adolescent migrants held captive in a camp; a Mexican immigrant pissed on and beaten after a Sox game; family history; a punch to the jaw; an ancient turtle. Praise the soccer ball sailing over the barbed-wire fence, white and black like the moon, yellow like the sun, blue like the world.

Humorous scenes abound with lots of biting social commentary and ridicule of the America’s Cup culture. The collection ranges from such flights of the imagination to achingly personal lyrics of adolescence, the baseball that drops from the sky and hits Espada in the eye as he contemplates a girl’s gently racist question. Earlier this week, Espada also was named in the inaugural cohort of the Letras Boricuas Fellowship, a new award created by The Andrew W. However, he is aghast that these days most of the young cops drink iced tea or light beer, both of which he finds exceedingly vile, causing him to obsessively fume with Hamlet that, 'The time is out of joint. Indeed, Blaze will soon lead Detective Anne Zorn and Mick Fortney along a bizarre criminal trail that would behilarious if it didn't wind up just as nasty as it gets, with a pair of murders right on the eve of the biggest sailing race of all.Do not skip the 'Notes on the Poems' following the collection for details on the people, places, and writings that influenced these evocative poems. Primarily written as prose poems with moments of lyrical luminescence, Floaters documents the grim realities of the Trump era with a sense of the historical forces behind them. This is a collection of mostly prose poetry where most of the pieces are political with no rhyme or meter. If Martín Espada’s name weren’t on the book, I would still recognize the poems as his, the stories that so exactly capture the shaping moments of his life and the lives of others, resonant, particular and yet universal, rendered into a lovely, unique lyricism—with a hard-won maturity.