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082 0 0 _a814 ESP
100 1 _aEspada, Martin
_d(, 1957-)
245 1 4 _aThe lover of a subversive is also a subversive
_b: essays and commentaries
_c/ Martín Espada
260 _aAnn Arbor
_b: University of Michigan Press
_c, c2010.
300 _a105 p.
_c; 21 cm.
490 1 _aPoets on poetry
505 0 _aThrough 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.
520 _aA 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."
600 1 0 _aEspada, Martin
_d(, 1957-)
650 0 _aPoetry
_x--Authorship
830 0 _aPoets on poetry
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