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From: Ploughshares[(essay date spring 2005) In the following essay, Salgado offers a brief overview of Espada's career as a poet.] When Martín Espada turned twenty, a family friend gave him a copy of the anthology Latin American...
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From: Poets & Writers[(interview date March-April 1995) In the following interview, Espada and Gunderson discuss Espada's development as a poet and his commitment to social activism and political poetry.] Behind a small table in the...
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From: Americas Review[(essay date 1999) In the following essay, Fink discusses Espada's treatment of the injustices endured by Puerto Ricans living on the mainland.] Ever since Puerto Ricans began to come from their native island to settle...
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From: Review of Trumpets from the Islands of Their Eviction. Minnesota Review[(review date fall 1991) In the following excerpted review, Frost praises Espada's Trumpets from the Islands of Their Eviction for its evocative fusion of history and personal experience.] Steven Mailloux uses the...
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From: Bloomsbury Review[(interview date April 1997) In the following interview, conducted in April 1997, Espada and González discuss the mix of personal experiences and political events that inform Espada's poetry.] Martín Espada is a writer...
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From: Giving Their Word: Conversations with Contemporary Poets[(interview date 2002) In the following interview, Espada and Ratiner discuss the political nature of Espada's poetry.] Hunched over the podium, Martín Espada is an imposing presence, a grizzly bear of a man with dark...
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From: Americas Review[(essay date fall-winter 1993) In the following essay, Rivas characterizes Espada as a poet who bridges the gap between Spanish-language and English-language poetry, and between folk culture and academia.] Will the new...