{"product_id":"jailbreak-of-sparrows-poems-9780593537121","title":"Jailbreak of Sparrows: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn this brilliant new collection of poems, National Book Award winner Mart?n Espada offers narratives of the forgotten and the unforgettable.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe poems in \u003ci\u003eJailbreak of Sparrows\u003c\/i\u003e reveal the ways in which the ordinary becomes monumental: family portraits, politically charged reports, and tributes to the unsung. Espada's focus ranges from the bombardment of his family's hometown in Puerto Rico amid an anti-colonial uprising to the murder of a Mexican man by police in California, from the poet's adolescent brawl on a basketball court over martyred baseball hero Roberto Clemente to his unorthodox methods of representing undocumented migrants as a tenant lawyer. We also encounter \"love songs\" to the poet's wife from a series of unexpected voices: a bat with vertigo, the polar bear mascot for a minor league ballclub, a disembodied head in a jar. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eJailbreak of Sparrows\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of arresting poems that roots itself in the image, the musicality of language, and the depth of human experience. \"\u003ci\u003eLook at this\u003c\/i\u003e was all he said, and all he had to say,\" the poet says about his father, a photographer who documented his Puerto Rican community in Brooklyn and beyond. The poems of Mart?n Espada tell us: \u003ci\u003eLook.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMART?N ESPADA has published more than twenty books as a poet, editor, essayist, and translator, including \u003ci\u003eFloaters, \u003c\/i\u003ewinner of the National Book Award, \u003ci\u003eVivas to Those Who Have Failed, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Republic of Poetry, \u003c\/i\u003ea finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His many honors include the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Shelley Memorial Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Born in Brooklyn, he now lives in western Massachusetts.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51186229346578,"sku":"9780593537121","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a8f39996-4356-484e-b101-80f61d5af1ac.jpg?v=1744617133","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/jailbreak-of-sparrows-poems-9780593537121","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}