Martín 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.
"A work of grace-laden defiance... Espada lands jabs of bright,
hard wisdom... The verve and force of this poet's long career [are
alive in Floaters]."
*Nina MacLaughlin - Boston Globe*
"Both elegiac and irrepressible, this is an essential read for
anyone interested in poetry as a form of protest."
*Chicago Review of Books*
"The visionary latest from Espada combines a sharp political
awareness with a storyteller's knack for finding beauty and irony
in the current moment... Drawing on history, personal experience,
and keen observation, this impressive collection is unique for the
way it captures the world-weary voice of a poet and political
activist who doesn't simply call for change, but offers a sense of
the long, difficult struggle toward justice."
*Publishers Weekly*
"Vintage Espada—essential, topical, political, irrepressible; in
his poems, mercy acquires muscle and close attention confers
value—reminding us that protest and praise rise from the same
source. Such eloquence in comradeship, elegy and homage to those
who lit the path, and, oh, a fresh bounty of love poems, written
'not in lust but in astonishment.'"
*Eleanor Wilner*
"Along with his trademark blend of gravitas, humor and raucous
imagination, we get an Espada more vulnerable, a voice more
intimate, than any we’ve heard from him before. Martín Espada has
long established himself as one of our most prolific and important
poets, his body of work a canon unto itself. Floaters is another
cannon in that canon."
*John Murillo*
"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. One of America’s most
indelible voices, as always, Espada’s poetry is lionhearted."
*Cyrus Cassells*
"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. The title poem does what Espada
is called to do, naming the dead, saving the memory of their lives.
This book disturbs in the best way, and still it sings."
*Wayne Karlin*
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