About the Author

Martin Espada (born 1957) is a Latino poet, and professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he teaches poetry. Puerto Rico has frequently been featured as a theme in his poems.

Reviews

"Strength and integrity...unify these writers as they speak passionately onissues common to all countries."-Publishers Weekly |"The poems here are full of surprises, grand themes grounded in the painful and triumphant particulars of each poet's life."-The Nation |"These are poems not so much of witness and survival as of defiance and resistance."-The Progressive