{"product_id":"floaters-poems-paperback","title":"Floaters: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMartín Espada\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMartín 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 Óscar and Valeria, a Salvadoran father and daughter who drowned in the Río 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 Galápagos 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 María, Espada invokes ferocious, incandescent spirits.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.27 x 8.32 x 6.23 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 17, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42698523279423,"sku":"9781324021810","price":19.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/d13bf02617d812f32098826986ad3096.webp?v=1765010496","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/floaters-poems-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}