Martin Espada called "the Latino poet of his generation" and "the Pablo Neruda of North American authors" by Sandra Cisneros, was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1957. Espada's collection, The Republic of Poetry, received the Paterson Award for Sustained Literary Achievement and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Sam Hamill called the collection, "truly pan-American, drawing on its many traditions and daring to insist upon its dreams of justice and mercy even during the age of perpetual war."
Espada's collection, Alabanza: New and Selected Poems, was published by Norton in 2003 and helped the author receive even more awards like the Robert Creeley Award and the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award.
A former tenant lawyer, Espada is now a professor in the Department of English at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, where he teaches creative writing and the works of Pablo Neruda.
Books / Collections
Crucifixion in the Plaza de Armas (Smokestack, 2008)
Alabanza: New and Selected Poems (Norton, 2003)
Zapata’s Disciple (South End, 1998)
from martinespada.net
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