“Why I went to College” by Martin Espada

About Martín Espada called “The Latino poet of his generation” and “the Pablo Neruda of North American authors,” Martín Espada was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1957. He has published seventeen books in all as a poet, reviewer, essayist and translator. The Republic of verse, a assemblage of poems published by Norton in 2006, obtained the Paterson accolade for maintained Literary accomplishment and was a finalist for the Pulitzer reward; his next assemblage, The problem Ball, is forthcoming from Norton in jump 2011. Aassemblage of term papers, The admirer of a Subversive ...