{"product_id":"jailbreak-of-sparrows-martn-espada-9780593537121","title":"Jailbreak of Sparrows: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn this brilliant new collection of poems, National Book Award winner Mart?n Espada offers narratives of the forgotten and the unforgettable.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe poems in \u003ci\u003eJailbreak of Sparrows\u003c\/i\u003e reveal the ways in which the ordinary becomes monumental: family portraits, politically charged reports, and tributes to the unsung. Espada's focus ranges from the bombardment of his family's hometown in Puerto Rico amid an anti-colonial uprising to the murder of a Mexican man by police in California, from the poet's adolescent brawl on a basketball court over martyred baseball hero Roberto Clemente to his unorthodox methods of representing undocumented migrants as a tenant lawyer. We also encounter \"love songs\" to the poet's wife from a series of unexpected voices: a bat with vertigo, the polar bear mascot for a minor league ballclub, a disembodied head in a jar. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eJailbreak of Sparrows\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of arresting poems that roots itself in the image, the musicality of language, and the depth of human experience. \"\u003ci\u003eLook at this\u003c\/i\u003e was all he said, and all he had to say,\" the poet says about his father, a photographer who documented his Puerto Rican community in Brooklyn and beyond. The poems of Mart?n Espada tell us: \u003ci\u003eLook.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mart?n Espada\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0593537122\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593537121\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.91lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.13h x 7.00w x 0.34d","brand":"Mart?n Espada","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46384186163455,"sku":"9780593537121","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/jailbreak-of-sparrows-martn-espada-9780593537121","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}