Zapata's disciple : essays / by Martín Espada.
Material type: TextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : South End Press, 1998Description: 144 pages ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0896085902
- 0896085899
- Hispanic Americans
- Puerto Ricans -- United States -- Civil rights
- Puerto Ricans -- United States -- Social conditions
- Puerto Ricans -- United States -- Politics and government
- American poetry -- Puerto Rican authors
- Hispanic Americans -- essays
- Hispanic Americans in literature
- Latin American literature
- Puerto Rican poetry
- 814/.54 22
- PS 3555 .S53 Z93 1998
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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BOOKS | Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library General Stacks | PS 3555.S53 Z93 1998 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not For Loan | NPML21010036 |
Includes index.
Includes an interviewing of both essays and poetry.
I. Zapata's disciple : Zapata's disciple and perfect brie -- Postcard from the empire of Queen Ixolib -- Argue not concerning God -- The Puerto Rican dummy and the merciful son --
II. Dispatches : Viva Puerto Rico gratis? : the painful patience of a colony at the close of the twentieth century -- The new bathroom policy at English high school : dispatches from the language wars -- Multiculturalism in the year of Columbus and Rodney King -- Poetry like bread --
III. Poetry like bread : Poetry like bread : poets of the political imagination -- The good liar meets his executioners : the evolution of a poem -- The poetics of commerce : the Nike poetry slam -- All things censored : the poem NPR doesn't want you to hear.
"In Zapata's Disciple, his first collection of essays, award-winning poet Martín Espada turns his fierce critical eye toward a range of urgent political and cultural issues in the Latino community and beyond: the myths and realities of machismo, the backlash against immigrants and the Spanish language, U.S. colonialism in Puerto Rico. Espada also reveals the story behind National Public Radio's censorship of his poem about death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal, as well as his refusal to write a poem for a Nike ad campaign. A dozen of Espada's poems, old and new, weave themselves through the essays." -- from the back cover.
"In December 1949, in Biloxi, Mississippi was arrested for not going to the back of the bus. A darkskinned Puerto Rican raaised in New York, he did not accept the laws of Jim Crow." -- from the text
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