Alabanza by Espada, Martín -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Contents I. from The Immigrant Iceboy’s Bolero (1982)

Mrs. Báez Serves Coffee on the Third Floor Cordillera Tato Hates the New York Yankees Heart of Hunger Jim’s Blind Blues Power

II. from Trumpets from the Islands of Their Eviction (1987)

Trumpets from the Islands of Their Eviction Toque de queda: Curfew in Lawrence Tiburón El señor está muerto From an Island You Cannot Name Mariano Explains Yanqui Colonialism to Judge Collings Again the Mercenaries: Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua, 4th of July 1982 La tormenta The Right Hand of a Mexican Farmworker in Somerset County, Maryland Leo Blue’s and the Tiger Rose Watch Me Swing The Moon Shatters on Alabama Avenue

III. from Rebellion is the Circle of a Lover’s Hands (1990)

La tumba de Buenaventura Roig Rebellion is the Circle of a Lover’s Hands (PellÍn and Nina) The Savior is Abducted in Puerto Rico Colibrí Bully The New Bathroom Policy at English High School Portrait of a Real Hijo de Puta Cheo Saw an Angel on Division Street Latin Night at the Pawnshop Two Mexicanos Lynched in Santa Cruz, California, May 3, 1877 Revolutionary Spanish Lesson The Intelligence of Scavengers After the Flood in Chinandega The Saint Vincent de Paul Food Pantry Stomp Federico’s Ghost The Florida Citrus Growers Association Responds to a Proposed Law Requiring Handwashing Facilities in the Fields Jorge the Church Janitor Finally Quits

IV. from City of Coughing and Dead Radiators (1993)

The Hidalgo’s Hat and a Hawk’s Bell of Gold The Lover of a Subversive is Also a Subversive Coca-Cola and Coco Frío Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper City of Coughing and Dead Radiators Courthouse Graffiti for Two Voices Mi Vida: Wings of Fright The Broken Window of Rosa Ramos The Legal Aid Lawyer Has an Epiphany DSS Dream White Birch The Other Alamo The Skull Beneath the Skin of the Mango When Songs Become Water

V. from Imagine the Angels of Bread (1996)

Imagine the Angels of Bread The Owl and the Lightning Cada puerco tiene su sábado The Piñata Painted with a Face Like Mine Rednecks Do Not Put Dead Monkeys in the Freezer The Bouncer’s Confession Soliloquy at Gunpoint My Cockroach Lover The Meaning of the Shovel Thieves of Light Offerings to an Ulcerated God My Native Costume Her Toolbox When the Leather is a Whip Because Clemente Means Merciful The Prisoners of Saint Lawrence All the People Who are Now Red Trees Sleeping on the Bus The Fugitive Poets of Fenway Park Hands Without Irons Become Dragonflies

VI. from A Mayan Astronomer in Hell’s Kitchen (2000)

My Name is Espada 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 A Mayan Astronomer in Hell’s Kitchen The Community College Revises its Curriculum in Response to Changing Demographics The Death of Carmen Miranda Genuflection in Right Field Prisoner AM-8335 and His Library of Lions Compañero Poet and the Surveillance of Sheep I Apologize for Giving You Poison Ivy by Smacking You in the Eye with the Crayfish at the End of My Fishing Line Thanksgiving The River Will Not Testify

VII. Alabanza: New Poems (2002)

En la calle San Sebastián Now the Dead Will Dance the Mambo Contemplation Offering of Stones Sheep Haiku Circle Your Name Searching for La Revolución in the Streets of Tijuana Sing Zapatista Ezequiel Parole Hearing How I Became the Rare Iguana Delicatissima of the Caribbean The Monsters at the Edge of the World Inheritance of Waterfalls and Sharks The Poet in the Box The Matchbook-Poet and his Scintilla of Fire Ghazal for Open Hands Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100

Glossary Biographical Note Acknowledgments Index Also by Martín Espada Copyright