wyszukanych pozycji: 11
Trouble Ball
ISBN: 9780393343564 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. from "The Trouble Ball On my father's island, there were hurricanes and tuberculosis, dissidents in jail and baseball. The loudspeakers boomed: Satchel Paige pitching for the Brujo of Guayama. From the Negro Leagues he brought the gifts of Baltasar the King from a bench on the plaza he told the secrets of a thousand pitches: The Trouble Ball The Triple Curve, The Bat Dodger, The Midnight Creeper, The Slow Gin Fizz The Thoughtful Stuff. Pancho Coimbre hit rainmakers for the Leones of Ponce Satchel sat the outfielders in the grass to play poker, windmilled three pitche to the plate, and...
from "The Trouble Ball On my father's island, there were hurricanes and tuberculosis, dissidents in jail and baseball. The loudspeakers boomed: Sa...
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68,52 zł |
Imagine the Angels of Bread: Poems
ISBN: 9780393316865 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Combining the personal with the political in his fifth collection, Martin Espada celebrates the bread of the imagination, the bread of the table, and the bread of justice. The heart of the collection is a series of autobiographical poems recalling family, school, neighborhood, and work experiences-from bouncer to tenant lawyer. There are moments of revelation and political transcendence here, which culminate in an elegy for the Puerto Rican poet Clemente Soto Velez, imprisoned for his advocacy of independence for Puerto Rico.
Combining the personal with the political in his fifth collection, Martin Espada celebrates the bread of the imagination, the bread of the table, and ...
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68,52 zł |
The Republic of Poetry: Poems
ISBN: 9780393331400 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 78 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In his eighth collection of poems, MartIn Espada celebrates the power of poetry itself. The Republic of Poetry is a place of odes and elegies, collective memory and hidden history, miraculous happenings and redemptive justice. Here poets return from the dead, visit in dreams, even rent a helicopter to drop poems on bookmarks. In his eighth collection of poems, MartIn Espada celebrates the power of poetry itself. The Republic of Poetry is a place of odes and eleg... |
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64,48 zł |
Alabanza: New and Selected Poems 1982-2002
ISBN: 9780393326215 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Alabanza is a twenty-year collection charting the emergence of Martin Espada as the preeminent Latino lyric voice of his generation. "Alabanza" means "praise" in Spanish, and Espada praises the people Whitman called "them the others are down upon": the African slaves who brought their music to Puerto Rico; a prison inmate provoking brawls so he could write poetry in solitary confinement; a janitor and his solitary strike; Espada's own father, who was jailed in Mississippi for refusing to go to the back of the bus. The poet bears witness to death and rebirth at the ruins of a... Alabanza is a twenty-year collection charting the emergence of Martin Espada as the preeminent Latino lyric voice of his generation. "Ala... |
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88,74 zł |
Un lado oscuro de la luna
ISBN: 9788468630175 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 2012 / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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99,57 zł |
Zapata's Disciple: Essays
ISBN: 9780810133853 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The ferocious acumen with which the award-winning poet Martin Espada attacks issues of social injustice in Zapata's Disciple makes it no surprise that the book has been the subject of bans in both Arizona and Texas, targeted for its presence in the Mexican American Studies curriculum of Tucson's schools and for its potential to incite a riot among Texas prison populations. This new edition of Zapata's Disciple, which won the 1999 Independent Publisher Book Award for Essay / Creative Nonfiction, opens with an introduction in which the author chronicles this history of... The ferocious acumen with which the award-winning poet Martin Espada attacks issues of social injustice in Zapata's Disciple makes it no sur... |
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72,57 zł |
Psalms of the Dining Room
ISBN: 9781498260619 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Endorsements: ""In Psalms of the Dining Room, Lauren Schmidt lays down riffs like a fierce blues guitarist, one who knows the power of each carefully chosen note. These poems explode with tough compassion. They sting a little bit--they make us flinch in recognition. Schmidt's sharply etched details tell the powerful stories of her characters' struggles to be seen, to be acknowledged as human. These poems remind us of how close we all are to each other, despite efforts at denial and distance, despite how violence can erode the human spirit. Her characters fight for dignity in the face of...
Endorsements: ""In Psalms of the Dining Room, Lauren Schmidt lays down riffs like a fierce blues guitarist, one who knows the power of each carefully ...
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141,49 zł |
Resistance: DoveTales Summer 2020, Issue III
ISBN: 9780989120685 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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134,15 zł |
Borrowed Bones: New Poems from the Poet Laureate of Los Angeles
ISBN: 9780810133648 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Foreword by Martin Espada This chapbook collection offers new poems from the prolific career of a community leader, activist, and healer. Luis J. Rodriguez s work asks profound questions of us as readers and fellow humans, such as, "If society cooperates, can we nurture the full / and healthy development of everyone?" In his introductory remarks, Martin Espada describes the poet as a man engaged in people and places: "Luis Rodriguez is a poet of many tongues, befitting a city of many tongues. He speaks English, Spanish, Hip Hop, the Blues, and cool jazz. He speaks in mad solos. He speaks... Foreword by Martin Espada This chapbook collection offers new poems from the prolific career of a community leader, activist, and healer. Luis J.... |
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70,02 zł |
What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump
ISBN: 9780810140776 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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134,91 zł |
The Necessary Poetics of Atheism: Essays and Poems
ISBN: 9780986159732 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "The Necessary Poetics of Atheism" collects poems and essays by three award-winning contemporary poets who demonstrate how atheism informs their poetics: as "a vehicle of political protest" in the work of MartIn Espada, as a form of activism and secular goodness in Lauren Marie Schmidt's poems, and as an aesthetic confrontation of a theistic worldview in J. D. Schraffenberger's writing. An enlightening foreword by the atheist philosopher Andrew Sneddon and a compelling introduction by poet Heid E. Erdrich invite us to read these "uneasy, contentious, complex, powerful, triumphant voices... "The Necessary Poetics of Atheism" collects poems and essays by three award-winning contemporary poets who demonstrate how atheism informs their po... |
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48,51 zł |