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Index
Cover
Title
Contents
I. A Tarantula in the Bananas
My Name Is Espada
Preciosa Like a Last Cup of Coffee
The Shiny Aluminum of God
My Father As a Guitar
For the Jim Crow Mexican Restaurant in Cambridge, Massachusetts Where My Cousin Esteban Was Forbidden to Wait Tables Because He Wears Dreadlocks
Pegao
The Governor of Puerto Rico Reveals at His Inaugural That He Is the Reincarnation of Ponce de León
Ornithology at the Caribe Hilton
The Rage of Plantation Days
What Francisco Luis Espada Learned at Age Five, Standing on the Dock
II. A Mayan Astronomer in Hell’s Kitchen
The Mexican Cabdriver’s Poem for His Wife, Who Has Left Him
A Mayan Astronomer in Hell’s Kitchen
The Janitor’s Garden
The Death of Carmen Miranda
The Community College Revises Its Curriculum in Response to Changing Demographics
Thanksgiving
Pitching the Potatoes
Genuflection in Right Field
The Ghost in the Trunk of the Car
The Man Who Owns the Dumpster Owns the Books
Ode to Your Earrings
I Apologize for Giving You Poison Ivy by Smacking You in the Eye with the Crayfish at the End of My Fishing Line
Why I Went to College
III. A Library of Lions
Crucifixion in the Plaza de Armas
Compañero Poet and the Surveillance of Sheep
A Cigarette’s Iris in the Eye of a Candle
Anarchism and the Parking Meter
The Carpenter Swam to Spain
The Eleventh Reason
Another Nameless Prostitute Says the Man Is Innocent
Prisoner AM-8335 and His Library of Lions
The River Will Not Testify
Glossary
Biographical Note
Acknowledgments
Also by Martín Espada
Copyright
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