{"product_id":"floaters-martn-espada-9780393541038","title":"Floaters: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eMart? Espada is a poet who \"stirs in us an undeniable social consciousness,\" says Richard Blanco. \u003cem\u003eFloaters\u003c\/em\u003e offers exuberant odes and defiant elegies, songs of protest and songs of love from one of the essential voices in American poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eFloaters\u003c\/em\u003e takes its title from a term used by certain Border Patrol agents to describe migrants who drown trying to cross over. The title poem responds to the viral photograph of ﾓscar and Valeria, a Salvadoran father and daughter who drowned in the R? Grande, and allegations posted in the \"I'm 10-15\" Border Patrol Facebook group that the photo was faked. Espada bears eloquent witness to confrontations with anti-immigrant bigotry as a tenant lawyer years ago, and now sings the praises of Central American adolescents kicking soccer balls over a barbed wire fence in an internment camp founded on that same bigotry. He also knows that times of hate call for poems of love--even in the voice of a cantankerous Gal疳agos tortoise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe collection ranges from historical epic to achingly personal lyrics about growing up, the baseball that drops from the sky and smacks Espada in the eye as he contemplates a girl's gently racist question.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhether celebrating the visionaries--the fallen dreamers, rebels and poets--or condemning the outrageous governmental neglect of his father's Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Mar?, Espada invokes ferocious, incandescent spirits.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mart? Espada\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0393541037\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780393541038\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/19\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 6.30w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e National Book Awards - Winner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/16\/2020","brand":"Mart? Espada","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44053450883327,"sku":"9780393541038","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_dc0c63ad-8d19-46ae-b5df-8fdf9f2ae71b.jpg?v=1685024412","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/floaters-martn-espada-9780393541038","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}