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03116aam a2200337 i 4500 001 43F534F8D37711ED83DD52344BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230405010043 008 210923t20222021nyu 000 p eng d 020 $a 1324021810 020 $a 9781324021810 035 $a (OCoLC)1268983766 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $e rda $d BDX $d GK8 $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d IG$ $d GO3 $d GK8 $d JHE $d MNE $d JDP $d OCL $d SILO 050 4 $a PS3555 S53 F56 2022 100 1 $a Espada, MartiÌn, $d 1957- $e author. 245 10 $a Floaters : $b poems / $c MartiÌn Espaa. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b W. W. Norton, $c 2022. 300 $a xvii, 75 pages ; $c 21 cm 520 $a "From the winner of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize come masterfully crafted narratives of protest, grief, and love. In this collection, MartiÌn Espada bears witness to confrontation with anti-immigrant bigotry as a tenant lawyer years ago, and now sings the praises of Central American adolescents playing soccer in an internment camp founded on that same bigotry. He knows that times of hate also call for poems of love--even in the voice of a GalaÌpagos tortoise. Whether celebrating the visions of fallen dreamers and poets or condemning the devastation of Hurricane Maria and official negligence in his father's Puerto Rico, Espada invokes ferocious, incandescent spirits"-- $c Provided by publisher. 505 00 $g IV. $t Letter to My Father. $t Jumping Off the Mystic Tobin Bridge -- $t Floaters -- $t Ode to the Soccer Ball Sailing Over a Barbed-Wire Fence -- $t Not for Him the Fiery Lake of the False Prophet -- $t Boxer Wears AmeÌrica 1st Shorts in Bout With Mexican, Finishes Second -- $t Mazen Sleeps With His Foot on the Floor -- $t I Now Pronounce You Dead -- $g II. $t Asking Questions Of The Moon -- $t The Story of How We Came to America -- $t Why I Wait for the Soggy Tarantula of Spinach -- $t The Stoplight at the Corner Where Somebody Had to Die -- $t Death Rides the Elevator in Brooklyn -- $t The Cannon on the Hood of My Father's Car -- $t Asking Questions of the Moon -- $t Standing on the Bridge at Dolceacqua -- $g III. $t Love Song Of The Kraken -- $t Aubade With Concussion -- $t I Would Steal a Car for You -- $t That We Will Sing -- $t Love Song of the Kraken -- $t Love Song of the GalaÌpagos Tortoise -- $t Love is a Luminous Insect at the Window -- $t Insulting the Prince -- $t The Assassination of the Landlord's Purple Vintage 1976 Monte Carlo -- $g IV. $t Morir SonÌando -- $t Remake of Me the Sickle for Thy Grain -- $t Be There When They Swarm Me -- $t The Bard Shakes the Snow From the Trees -- $t Flan -- $t Morir SonÌando -- $t The Five Horses of Doctor RamoÌn Emeterio Betances -- $t Letter to My Father. 586 $a Winner of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. 586 $a National Book Award Winner for Poetry, 2021. 650 0 $a Toleration $v Poetry. 650 0 $a American poetry $y 21st century. 941 $a 4 952 $l SFPH074 $d 20240314025338.0 952 $l ETPD745 $d 20231025013202.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20230706014900.0 952 $l ORAX826 $d 20230706010219.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=43F534F8D37711ED83DD52344BECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search