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| Martin Espada (1957- ), born in New York city, and once a practicing lawyer in Chelsea, Massachusetts, is regarded as one of the leading poets of Puerto Rican heritage in the U.S. Author of five books of poetry, including City of coughing and dead radiators (Norton, 1993), Imagine the angels of bread (Norton, 1996) and most recently, A Mayan astronomer in Hell’s Kitchen (Norton, 2000), Espada has also published a book of essays (Zapata’s Disciple, South End Press, Cambridge, 1998), edited an anthology, Poetry like bread: poets of the political imagination, (Curbstone Press, Willimantic, CT, 1994), and a translation into English of a selection of poems by Clemente Soto Velez. For us he offers a powerful reading of poems from three of his recent books. |
