Rebellion Is the Circle of a Lover's Hands/Rebelió

"Astonishingly bold young poet." —New York Times Book Reviews

"In language that is always surprising and never didactic, the poems both celebrate and condemn, instruct and honor." —San Francisco Chronicle Review

"Espada is a responsible and caring poet with a talent that equals his task." —Gary Soto, Small Press

"Without ever relying on abstractions such as 'racism' or 'poverty', [Martín Espada] brings the reader face to face with these conditions by showing us the human tissue these terms so often mask." —Bloomsbury Review

"His poems are, by turns, ferocious, tender, ardently political or touching biographical." —Christian Science Moniter