The republic of poetry : poems
/ Martín Espada
- 1st ed
- New York : W.W. Norton & Co. , c2006.
- 63 p. ; 22 cm.
Poems. The finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 59-62).
The Republic of Poetry is a place of odes and elegies, collective memory and hidden history, miraculous happenings and redemptive justice. Here poets return from the dead, visit in dreams, even rent a helicopter to drop poems on bookmarks.