{"product_id":"vivas-to-those-who-have-failed-poems","title":"Vivas to Those Who Have Failed: Poems","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eVivas to Those Who Have Failed: Poems\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eMartín Espada\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780393353952\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eW. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2017\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eReprint\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e96\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this powerful new collection of poems, Martín 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 Moriviví\" uses the metaphor of a plant that grows in Puerto Rico to celebrate the many lives of Frank Espada, community organizer, civil rights activist, and documentary photographer, from a jailhouse in Mississippi to the streets of Brooklyn. The son lyrically imagines his father's return to a bay in Puerto Rico: \"May the water glow blue as a hyacinth in your hands.\" Other poems confront collective grief in the wake of the killings at the Sandy Hook Elementary School and police violence against people of color: \"Heal the Cracks in the Bell of the World\" urges us to \"melt the bullets into bells.\" Yet the poet also revels in the absurd, recalling his dubious career as a Shakespearean \"actor,\" finding madness and tenderness in the crowd at Fenway Park. In exquisitely wrought images, Espada's poems show us the faces of Whitman's \"numberless unknown heroes.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Vivas to Those Who Have Failed: Poems | Martín Espada | Paperback | 9780393353952 | Used: Very Good | Poetry 1687131","offer_id":48864295682200,"sku":"1687131","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/61qrQoZ2E6L.jpg?v=1775851942","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/vivas-to-those-who-have-failed-poems","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}