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Jailbreak of Sparrows: Poems

Jailbreak of Sparrows: Poems

Espada, Martín

Hardcover

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $29.00

ISBN10: 0593537122
ISBN13: 9780593537121
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: Apr 1 2025
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.80 Width: 7.20 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
In this brilliant new collection of poems, National Book Award winner Martín Espada offers narratives of the forgotten and the unforgettable.

The poems in Jailbreak of Sparrows reveal the ways in which the ordinary becomes monumental: family portraits, politically charged reports, and tributes to the unsung. Espada's focus ranges from the bombardment of his family's hometown in Puerto Rico amid an anti-colonial uprising to the murder of a Mexican man by police in California, from the poet's adolescent brawl on a basketball court over martyred baseball hero Roberto Clemente to his unorthodox methods of representing undocumented migrants as a tenant lawyer. We also encounter love songs to the poet's wife from a series of unexpected voices: a bat with vertigo, the polar bear mascot for a minor league ballclub, a disembodied head in a jar.

Jailbreak of Sparrows is a collection of arresting poems that roots itself in the image, the musicality of language, and the depth of human experience. Look at this was all he said, and all he had to say, the poet says about his father, a photographer who documented his Puerto Rican community in Brooklyn and beyond. The poems of Martín Espada tell us: Look.

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