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Espada, Martín, 1957-

A Mayan astronomer in Hell's Kitchen : poems / Martín Espada.

1st ed.

New York : Norton, ©2000.

84 pages ; 22 cm

In his sixth collection, American Book Award winner Martin Espada has created a poetic mural. There are conquerors, slaves, and rebels from Caribbean history; the "Mayan astronomer" calmly smoking a cigarette in the middle of a New York tenement fire; a nun staging a White House vigil to protest her torture; a man on death row mourning the loss of his books; and even Carmen Miranda.

Hispanic Americans -- Poetry.

Puerto Ricans -- United States -- Poetry.

American poetry -- Hispanic American authors.

Fiction.

Poetry.

A Tarantula in the Bananas -- My Name Is Espada -- Preciosa Like a Last Cup of Coffee -- The Shiny Aluminum of God -- My Father As a Guitar -- For the Jim Crow Mexican Restaurant in Cambridge, Massachusetts Where My Cousin Esteban Was Forbidden to Wait Tables Because He Wears Dreadlocks -- Pegao -- The Governor of Puerto Rico Reveals at His Inaugural That He Is the Reincarnation of Ponce de Leon -- Ornithology at the Caribe Hilton -- The Rage of Plantation Days -- What Francisco Luis Espada Learned at Age Five, Standing on the Dock -- A Mayan Astronomer in Hell's Kitchen -- The Mexican Cabdriver's Poem for His Wife, Who Has Left Him -- A Mayan Astronomer in Hell's Kitchen -- The Janitor's Garden -- The Death of Carmen Miranda -- The Community College Revises Its Curriculum in Response to Changing Demographics -- Thanksgiving -- Pitching the Potatoes -- Genuflection in Right Field -- The Ghost in the Trunk of the Car -- The Man Who Owns the Dumpster Owns the Books -- Ode to Your Earrings -- I Apologize for Giving You Poison Ivy by Smacking You in the Eye with the Crayfish at the End of My Fishing Line -- Why I Went to College -- A Library of Lions -- Crucifixion in the Plaza de Armas -- Companero Poet and the Surveillance of Sheep -- A Cigarette's Iris in the Eye of a Candle -- Anarchism and the Parking Meter -- The Carpenter Swam to Spain -- The Eleventh Reason -- Another Nameless Prostitute Says the Man Is Innocent -- Prisoner AM-8335 and His Library of Lions -- The River Will Not Testify.

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