Vivas to Those Who Have Failed: Poems

by Martín Espada

Book Overview

In this powerful new collection of poems, Mart n Espada articulates the transcendent vision of another, possible world. He invokes the words of Whitman in "Vivas to Those Who Have Failed," a cycle of sonnets about the Paterson Silk Strike and the immigrant laborers who envisioned an eight-hour workday. At the heart of this volume is a series of ten poems about the death of the poet's father. "El Moriviv " uses the metaphor of a plant that grows...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393249034
• ISBN13: 9780393249033
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 8.4"