Poetry Like Bread: Poets of the Political Imagination from Curbstone Press - Softcover

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9781880684153: Poetry Like Bread: Poets of the Political Imagination from Curbstone Press

Synopsis

Collects two decades of political verse by thirty poets, including Tomas Borge, Clemente Soto Velez, and Marianne Larson

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Review

"Strength and integrity...unify these writers as they speak passionately onissues common to all countries."-Publishers Weekly



"The poems here are full of surprises, grand themes grounded in the painful and triumphant particulars of each poet's life."-The Nation
"These are poems not so much of witness and survival as of defiance and resistance."-The Progressive

About the Author

Martin Espada (born 1957) is a Latino poet, and professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he teaches poetry. Puerto Rico has frequently been featured as a theme in his poems.

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