Floaters by Martín Espada -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Contents I. Jumping Off the Mystic Tobin Bridge

Jumping Off the Mystic Tobin Bridge Floaters Ode to the Soccer Ball Sailing Over a Barbed-Wire Fence Not for Him the Fiery Lake of the False Prophet Boxer Wears America 1st Shorts in Bout With Mexican, Finishes Second Mazen Sleeps With His Foot on the Floor I Now Pronounce You Dead

II. Asking Questions of the Moon

The Story of How We Came to América Why I Wait for the Soggy Tarantula of Spinach The Stoplight at the Corner Where Somebody Had to Die Death Rides the Elevator in Brooklyn The Cannon on the Hood of My Father’s Car Asking Questions of the Moon Standing on the Bridge at Dolceacqua

III. Love Song of the Kraken

Aubade With Concussion I Would Steal a Car for You That We Will Sing Love Song of the Kraken Love Song of the Galápagos Tortoise Love is a Luminous Insect at the Window Insulting the Prince The Assassination of the Landlord’s Purple Vintage 1976 Monte Carlo

IV. Morir Soñando

Remake of Me the Sickle for Thy Grain Be There When They Swarm Me The Bard Shakes the Snow From the Trees Flan Morir Soñando The Five Horses of Doctor Ramón Emeterio Betances Letter to My Father

Note on the Cover Photograph Notes on the Poems Acknowledgments About Martín Espada Also by Martín Espada Copyright

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