{"product_id":"vivas-to-those-who-have-failed-poems-paperback","title":"Vivas to Those Who Have Failed: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMartín Espada\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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 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\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 04, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51755712348448,"sku":"9780393353952","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/9228a2dab8c78b3aa0652a0fc3c48741.webp?v=1780066614","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/vivas-to-those-who-have-failed-poems-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}