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A Mayan astronomer in Hell's Kitchen : poems / Martín Espada.
Van Pelt Library PS3555.S53 M39 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Espada, Martín, 1957-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hispanic Americans--Poetry.
- Hispanic Americans.
- Puerto Ricans.
- United States.
- Puerto Ricans--United States--Poetry.
- American poetry--Hispanic American authors.
- American poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 84 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Norton, [2000]
- Summary:
- In his sixth collection, American Book Award winner Martin Espada has created a poetic mural. There are conquerors, slaves, and rebels from Caribbean history; the "Mayan astronomer" calmly smoking a cigarette in the middle of a New York tenement fire; a nun staging a White House vigil to protest her torture; a man on death row mourning the loss of his books; and even Carmen Miranda.
- Contents:
- A Tarantula in the Bananas
- My Name Is Espada
- Preciosa Like a Last Cup of Coffee
- 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
- The Governor of Puerto Rico Reveals at His Inaugural That He Is the Reincarnation of Ponce de Leon
- Ornithology at the Caribe Hilton
- The Rage of Plantation Days
- What Francisco Luis Espada Learned at Age Five, Standing on the Dock
- A Mayan Astronomer in Hell's Kitchen
- The Mexican Cabdriver's Poem for His Wife, Who Has Left Him
- The Janitor's Garden
- The Death of Carmen Miranda
- The Community College Revises Its Curriculum in Response to Changing Demographics
- Thanksgiving
- Pitching the Potatoes
- Genuflection in Right Field
- The Ghost in the Trunk of the Car
- The Man Who Owns the Dumpster Owns the Books
- Ode to Your Earrings
- I Apologize for Giving You Poison Ivy by Smacking You in the Eye with the Crayfish at the End of My Fishing Line
- Why I Went to College
- A Library of Lions
- Crucifixion in the Plaza de Armas
- Companero Poet and the Surveillance of Sheep
- A Cigarette's Iris in the Eye of a Candle
- Anarchism and the Parking Meter
- The Carpenter Swam to Spain
- The Eleventh Reason
- Another Nameless Prostitute Says the Man Is Innocent
- Prisoner AM-8335 and His Library of Lions
- The River Will Not Testify.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0393048888
- 9780393048889
- OCLC:
- 42649806
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