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

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

by Martín Espada

Translated by Martín Espada and Camilo Pérez-Bustillo

Imprint: Curbstone Books

123 Pages, 5.50 x 8.50 in

Paperback
9780915306954
Published: July 1995

$16.95

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In his masterful bilingual collection Rebellion Is the Circle of a Lover's Hands/Rebelión es el giro de manos del amante, acclaimed, award-winning poet Martín Espada explores and illuminates what it means to be Puerto Rican in the United States today.

MARTÍN ESPADA, born in Brooklyn in 1957, has been called the Latino poet of his generation. The author of fourteen collections of poetry, he is also an editor, essayist, and translator. He is currently a professor in the Department of English at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst.

CAMILO PÉREZ-BUSTILLO is a translator, activist, and fellow at the University of Texas El Paso working in defense of human rights at the U.S.-Mexico border.

"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