{"product_id":"floaters-poems-hardcover","title":"Floaters: Poems - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMart? Espada\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMart? Espada is a poet who \"stirs in us an undeniable social consciousness,\" says Richard Blanco. \u003cem\u003eFloaters\u003c\/em\u003e offers exuberant odes and defiant elegies, songs of protest and songs of love from one of the essential voices in American poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eFloaters\u003c\/em\u003e takes its title from a term used by certain Border Patrol agents to describe migrants who drown trying to cross over. The title poem responds to the viral photograph of ﾓscar and Valeria, a Salvadoran father and daughter who drowned in the R? Grande, and allegations posted in the \"I'm 10-15\" Border Patrol Facebook group that the photo was faked. Espada bears eloquent witness to confrontations with anti-immigrant bigotry as a tenant lawyer years ago, and now sings the praises of Central American adolescents kicking soccer balls over a barbed wire fence in an internment camp founded on that same bigotry. He also knows that times of hate call for poems of love--even in the voice of a cantankerous Gal疳agos tortoise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe collection ranges from historical epic to achingly personal lyrics about growing up, the baseball that drops from the sky and smacks Espada in the eye as he contemplates a girl's gently racist question.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhether celebrating the visionaries--the fallen dreamers, rebels and poets--or condemning the outrageous governmental neglect of his father's Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Mar?, Espada invokes ferocious, incandescent spirits.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.4 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 19, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e National Book Awards (2021)\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51765222932768,"sku":"9780393541038","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/8298f76433605803c25c1ee5d2827bb0.webp?v=1780264285","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/floaters-poems-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}