Jailbreak of Sparrows

In this brilliant new collection of poems, National Book Award winner Martín Espada offers narratives of the forgotten and the unforgettable. The poems in <Jailbreak of Sparrows< is a collection of arresting poems that roots itself in the image, the musicality of language, and the depth of human experience. “<Look at this,< 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 Martín Espada tell us: <Look.<

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Martín Espada

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"The poems in Jailbreak of Sparrows are about the ways in which the ordinary becomes monumental: portraits of loved ones, politically-charged meditations, and tributes to the unsung. Moving from his upbringing in New York City and his work as a legal aid in Boston, to the chapters that are still being written, time crystallizes within Espada's Whitmanesque lines, and brings the world - with all of its tenderness, wit, and violence - into focus"--