Interview statements and e-mail correspondence from Martín Espada used with permission.
“Cordillera”; “Heart of Hunger”; “The Immigrant Iceboy’s Bolero”; “Mrs. Baez [sic] Serves Coffee on the Third Floor”; “The Night Watchman’s Indentured Servitude”; “One-Night Stand in the Milk of an Industrial Moon”; “Tato Hates the New York Yankees” from The Immigrant Iceboy’s Bolero by Martín Espada. Copyright © 1982 by Martín Espada. Used by permission of the author.
“Again the Mercenaries: Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua, 4th of July 1982”; “El señor está muerto”; “From an Island You Cannot Name”; “Los Sures”; “Mariano Explains Yanqui Colonialism to Judge Collings”; “The Moon Shatters on Alabama Avenue”; “Pinball Between Madhouses”; “The Spanish of Our Out-Loud Dreams”; “Toque de queda: Curfew in Lawrence”; “Trumpets from the Islands of Their Eviction”; “Watch Me Swing”; “Water, White Cotton, and the Rich Man”; “We Live by What We See at Night” from Trumpets from the Islands of Their Eviction by Martín Espada. Copyright © 1987, 1994 by Martín Espada and Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe, Tempe, Arizona. Used by permission of the author and Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe.
“Bully” (“Buscabulla”); “Clemente’s Bullets” (“Las balas de Clemente”); “Colibrí” (“Colibrí”); “Federico’s Ghost” (“El fantasma de Federico”); “Julio Signing His Name” (“Julio firmando su nombre”); “The King of Books” (“El Rey de los Libros”); “La Tumba de Buenaventura Roig” (“La tumba de Buenaventura Roig”); “Moving Day in the Financial District” (“Diá de mudanza en el distrito financiero”); “Portrait of a Real Hijo de Puta” (“Retrato de un verdadero hijo de puta”); “Rebellion is the Circle of a Lover’s Hands (Pellín and Nina)” (“Rebelión es el giro de manos del amante [Pellín and Nina]”); “Two Mexicanos Lynched in Santa Cruz, California, May 3, 1877” (“Dos mexicanos linchados en Santa Cruz, California, 3 de mayo, 1877”) from Rebellion is the Circle of a Lover’s Hands/Rebelión es el giro de manos del amante. Copyright © by Martín Espada. Translation Copyright © Camilo Pérez-Bustillo and Martín Espada. Used by permission of the author and Northwestern University Press.
“The Admiral and the Snake”; “Blackballed by the Rainbow Girls”; “Borofels”; “The Broken Window of Rosa Ramos”; “City of Coughing and Dead Radiators”; “Coca-Cola and Coco Frío”; “Cockroaches of Liberation”; “Day of the Dead on Wortman Avenue”; “The Hidalgo’s Hat and a Hawk’s Bell of Gold”; “The Lesson of My Uncle’s Nose”; “Mi Vida: Wings of Fright”; “The Other Alamo”; “The Skull Beneath the Skin of the Mango”; “Tires Stacked in the Hallways of Civilization”; “White Birch”; “Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper”; “The Year I Was Diagnosed with a Sacrilegious Heart” from City of Coughing and Dead Radiators by Martín Espada. Copyright © 1993 by Martín Espada. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
“All the People Who Are Now Red Trees”; “Because Clemente Means Merciful”; “Cada puerco tiene su sabado [sic]”; “The Foreman’s Wallet”; “The Fugitive Poets of Fenway Park”; “The Good Liar Meets His Executioners”; “Governor Wilson of California Talks in His Sleep”; “Hands Without Irons Become Dragonflies”; “Her Toolbox”; “Imagine the Angels of Bread” (“Imagina los angeles de pan”); “The Meaning of the Shovel”; “My Twenty-Fifth Year Amazed the Astrologers”; “Offerings to an Ulcerated God”; “The Piñata Painted with a Face Like Mine”; “Public School 190, Brooklyn 1963”; “Rain Delay: Toledo Mud Hens, July 8, 1994”; “The Sign in My Father’s Hands”; “Sing in the Voice of a God Even Atheists Can Hear”; “Sleeping on the Bus”; “Thieves of Light”; “When the Leather Is a Whip” from Imagine the Angels of Bread by Martín Espada. Copyright © 1996 by Martín Espada. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
“Another Nameless Prostitute Says the Man Is Innocent”; “I Apologize for Giving You Poison Ivy By Smacking You in the Eye With the Crayfish at the End of My Fishing Line”; “The Carpenter Swam to Spain”; “For the Jim Crow Mexican Restaurant in Cambridge, Massachusetts Where My Cousin Esteban was Forbidden to Wait Tables Because He Wears Dreadlocks”; “Genuflection in Right Field”; “The Ghost in the Trunk of the Car”; “My Name Is Espada”; “The River Will Not Testify”; “Pegao”; “Pitching the Potatoes” from A Mayan Astronomer in Hell’s Kitchen by Martín Espada. Copyright © 2000 by Martín Espada. Used by permission of the author and W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
“Again the Mercenaries: Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua, 4th of July 1982”; “Watch Me Swing”. Copyright © 1987 by Martín Espada; “Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100”; “Bully”; “Circle Your Name”; “En la calle San Sebastián”; “Now the Dead Will Dance the Mambo”. Copyright © 2003 by Martín Espada; “Tato Hates the New York Yankees”; “Cordillera”; “Heart of Hunger”; “Mrs. Báez Serves Coffee on the Third Floor”. Copyright © 1982 by Martín Espada; “The River Will Not Testify”. Copyright © 2000 by Martín Espada; “Thieves of Light”; “Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper”. Copyright © 1993 by Martín Espada; from Alabanza by Martín Espada. Used by permission of the author and W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
“The Caves of Camuy”; “Not Here”; “The Republic of Poetry”; “Something Escapes the Bonfire”; “Stone Hammered to Gravel” from The Republic of Poetry by Martín Espada. Copyright © 2006 by Martín Espada. Reprinted by permission of The Frances Goldin Literary Agency. Used by permission of the author and W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
“Litany at the Tomb of Frederick Douglass”; “The Spider and the Angel”; “The Swimming Pool at Villa Grimaldi”; “Visions of the Chapel Ceiling in Guadalajara” from The Trouble Ball by Martín Espada. Copyright © 2011 by Martín Espada. Reprinted by permission of The Frances Goldin Literary Agency. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
“Martín Espada (1957–)” by César A. Salgado, from Latino and Latina Writers, 1E. © 2004 Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, Inc. Reproduced by permission. www.cengage.com/permissions
“The Poet Is a Historian, the Poem Is a Record: Interview with Martín Espada” and “La tumba de Buenaventura Roig: Selected Poems/Poemas selectos Book Review.” Copyright © 2008 Carmen Dolores Hernández and El Nuevo Día. Translation Copyright © Carmen Dolores Hernández. Reprinted with permission.
Excerpts from “Martin [sic] Espada on the Worst Call in Baseball History.” Copyright © Dave Zirin and The Nation. Nation Online 3 June 2010. Reprinted with permission.
Excerpt from back cover endorsement of Martín Espada’s Alabanza by Marge Piercy. Copyright © 2003 Marge Piercy. Reprinted with permission.
Cover Photograph of Martín Espada (“Espada Mass. Poetry Festival, 2013”) by Patrick Sylvain. Copyright © 2013 Patrick Sylvain. Used with permission.
Translations from Martín Espada’s Rebellion is the Circle of a Lover’s Hands/Rebelión es el giro de manos del amante and Imagine the Angels of Bread by Camilo Pérez-Bustillo. Copyright © 1990, 1996 Camilo Pérez-Bustillo. Used with permission.