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This collection of essays on poetry and politics comes from the man the New York Times predicted would become \"the Latino poet of his generation\" and whom Sandra Cisneros called \"the Pablo Neruda of North American authors.\"  Martín Espada defends what Walt Whitman called, \"the rights of them the others are down upon.\" He invokes the spirit of poet-advocates such as Whitman and Edgar Lee Masters to explore his own history as a poet and tenant lawyer in Boston's Latino community. He celebrates the poets of Puerto Rico, imprisoned for espousing the cause of independence, and the poets of the Bronx, writing bilingual poems in the voices of the dead.  Espada writes of forgotten places and reminds us of the poet's responsibility to remember, as Pablo Neruda remembers the anonymous builders of Machu Picchu or Sterling Brown remembers the slave uprising of Nat Turner. 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