The lover of a subversive is also a subversive : essays and commentaries / Martín Espada
Material type: TextSeries: Poets on poetryPublication details: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , c2010.Description: 105 p. ; 21 cmISBN:- 9780472051472
- 814 ESP
- PS3555.S53 Z46 2010
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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."
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