Author(s): MARTIN ESPADA

Poetry

The eighth collection by the Pablo Neruda of NorthAmerican authors (Sandra Cisneros) was a finalist for the 2007Pulitzer Prize. In his eighth collection of poems, Martín Espadacelebrates the power of poetry itself. The Republic ofPoetry is a place of odes and elegies, collective memory andhidden history, miraculous happenings and redemptive justice. Herepoets return from the dead, visit in dreams, even rent a helicopterto drop poems on bookmarks.