A Mayan Astronomer in Hell's Kitchen: Poems
Book Details
Author(s)
MartÃn Espada
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN / ASIN
0393321681
ISBN-13
9780393321685
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#1,264,581
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"MartÃn Espada ....forges a new poetic language."—Dennis Loy Johnson, Pittsburgh Tribune
In his sixth collection, American Book Award winner MartÃn Espada has created a poetic mural. There are conquerors, slaves, and rebels from Caribbean history; the "Mayan astronomer" calmly smoking a cigarette in the middle of a New York tenement fire; a nun staging a White House vigil to protest her torture; a man on death row mourning the loss of his books; and even Carmen Miranda.
