The lover of a subversive is also a subversive : essays and commentaries
Espada, Martin (, 1957-)
The lover of a subversive is also a subversive : essays and commentaries / Martín Espada - Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , c2010. - 105 p. ; 21 cm. - Poets on poetry . - Poets on poetry .
Through me many long dumb voices: the poet-lawyer -- The lover of a subversive is also a subversive: colonialism and the poetry of rebellion in Puerto Rico -- Blessed be the truth-tellers: in praise of Jack Agüeros -- I've known rivers: speaking of the unspoken places in poetry -- A branch on the tree of Whitman: Martín Espada on the 150th anniversary of Leaves of grass -- Seers unseen: the poets of the Viet Nam War -- The unacknowledged legislator: a rebuttal -- About Martín Espada.
A collection of essays on poetry and politics. Espada challenges the conventional wisdom that poetry and politics are mutually exclusive, and rejects the poetics of self-marginalization, in keeping with Adrian Mitchell's dictum that, "most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people."
9780472051472
2010030292
Espada, Martin (, 1957-)
Poetry----Authorship
PS3555.S53 / Z46 2010
814 ESP
The lover of a subversive is also a subversive : essays and commentaries / Martín Espada - Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , c2010. - 105 p. ; 21 cm. - Poets on poetry . - Poets on poetry .
Through me many long dumb voices: the poet-lawyer -- The lover of a subversive is also a subversive: colonialism and the poetry of rebellion in Puerto Rico -- Blessed be the truth-tellers: in praise of Jack Agüeros -- I've known rivers: speaking of the unspoken places in poetry -- A branch on the tree of Whitman: Martín Espada on the 150th anniversary of Leaves of grass -- Seers unseen: the poets of the Viet Nam War -- The unacknowledged legislator: a rebuttal -- About Martín Espada.
A collection of essays on poetry and politics. Espada challenges the conventional wisdom that poetry and politics are mutually exclusive, and rejects the poetics of self-marginalization, in keeping with Adrian Mitchell's dictum that, "most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people."
9780472051472
2010030292
Espada, Martin (, 1957-)
Poetry----Authorship
PS3555.S53 / Z46 2010
814 ESP
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