{"product_id":"floaters-poems","title":"Floaters - Poems","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMartín Espada is a poet who stirs in us an undeniable social consciousness, says Richard Blanco. \u003cem\u003eFloaters\u003c\/em\u003e offers exuberant odes and defiant elegies, songs of protest and songs of love from one of the essential voices in American poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFloaters\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhether 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \u003cbr\u003e Published: USA, 2022\u003cbr\u003e Publisher: W W Norton \u0026amp; Co Inc\u003cbr\u003e Pages: 75\u003cbr\u003e Language: English\u003cbr\u003e ISBN 13: 9781324021810\u003cbr\u003e ISBN 10: 1324021810\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Martin Espada","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43527029358858,"sku":"","price":16.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/products\/9781324021810.jpg?v=1653056083","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/floaters-poems","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}