Vivas to Those Who Have Failed by Espada, Martín -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Contents Vivas to Those Who Have Failed

Vivas to Those Who Have Failed: The Paterson Silk Strike, 1913

I. The Red Flag II. The River Floods the Avenue III. The Insects in the Soup IV. The Little Agitator V. Vivas to Those Who Have Failed

Heal the Cracks in the Bell of the World

Here I Am

Here I Am Barbaric Yawp Big Noise Blues Once Thundering Penguin Herds Darkened the Prairie Castles for the Laborers and Ballgames on the Radio The Socialist in the Crowd From the Rubáiyát of Fenway Park Hard-Handed Men of Athens Marshmallow Rice Krispie Treat Machu Picchu The Man in the Duck Suit

A Million Ants Swarming Through His Body

Flowers and Bullets A Million Ants Swarming Through His Body The Discovery of Archaeopteryx Of the Threads That Connect the Stars The Goddamned Crucifix

El Moriviví

Haunt Me The Beating Heart of the Wristwatch On the Hovering of Souls and Balloon Animals Bills to Pay After the Goose That Rose Like the God of Geese Mad Love The Sinking of the San Jacinto There but Not There The Shamrock El Moriviví

Notes on the Poems Acknowledgments About the Author Also by Martín Espada Copyright