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The title poem pays homage to the immigrant food-service workers who lost their lives in the attack on the World Trade Center. From the earliest out-of-print work to the seventeen new poems included here, Espada celebrates the American political imagination and the resilience of human dignity. Alabanza is the epic vision of a writer who, in the words of Russell Banks, \"is one of the handful of American poets who are forging a new American language, one that tells the unwritten history of the continent, speaks truth to power, and sings songs of selves we can no longer silence.\" An American Library Association Notable Book of 2003 and a 2003 New York Public Library Book to Remember.   \"To read this work is to be struck breathless, and surely, to come away changed.\"—Barbara Kingsolver \"Martín Espada is the Pablo Neruda of North American authors. If it was up to me, I'd select him as the Poet Laureate of the United States.\"—Sandra Cisneros \"With these new and selected poems, you can grasp how powerful a poet Espada is—his range, his compassion, his astonishing images, his sense of history, his knowledge of the lives on the underbelly of cities, his bright anger, his tenderness, his humor. \"—Marge Piercy \"Espada's poems are not just clarion calls to the heart and conscience, but also wonderfully crafted gems.\"—Julia Alvarez \"A passionate, readable poetry that makes [Espada] arguably the most important 'minority' U.S. poet since Langston Hughes.\"—Booklist\"Neruda is dead, but if Alabanza is any clue, his ghost lives through a poet named Martín Espada.\"—San Francisco Chronicle","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49601039892753,"sku":"GOR006675460","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49796685234449,"sku":"CIN0393326217G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49950685888785,"sku":"CIN0393326217A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50579087065361,"sku":"CIN0393326217VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51002101137681,"sku":"NIN9780393326215","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52489207120145,"sku":"NLS9780393326215","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0393326217.jpg?v=1750696566"},{"product_id":"vivas-to-those-who-have-failed-book-martn-espada-9780393353952","title":"Vivas to Those Who Have Failed","description":"Award-winning poet Martin Espada gives voice to the spirit of endurance in the face of loss.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49763753787665,"sku":"CIN0393353958G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51321035751697,"sku":"CIN0393353958VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0393353958.jpg?v=1751134391"},{"product_id":"trouble-ball-book-martin-espada-9780393343564","title":"The Trouble Ball","description":"In this new collection of poems, Martín Espada crosses the borderlands of epiphany and blasphemy: from a pilgrimage to the tomb of Frederick Douglass to an encounter with the swimming pool at a center of torture and execution in Chile, from the adolescent discovery of poet Omar Khayyám to the death of an \"illegal\" Mexican immigrant.    from \"The Trouble Ball\"        On my father's island, there were hurricanes and tuberculosis, dissidents in jail        and baseball. 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This new edition of Zapata’s Disciple, which won the 1999 Independent Publisher Book Award for Essay \/ Creative Nonfiction, opens with an introduction in which the author chronicles this history of censorship and continues his lifelong fight for freedom of expression. A dozen of Espada’s poems, tender and wry as theyare powerful, interweave with essays that address the denigration of the Spanish language by American cultural arbiters, castigate  Nike for the exploitation of its workers, reflect upon National Public Radio’s censorship of Espada’s poem about Mumia Abu- Jamal, and more. 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