![]() ![]() Yet for all his political fervor, Espada is a poet first, and a good one. Martín Espada, Vivas to Those Who Have Failed: The title comes from Whitman’s “Song of Myself,” and Espada’s latest collection is full of working-class heroes - from Union strikers to Howard Zinn to the Puerto Rican nationalist Lola Rodríguez de Tió to Espada’s activist father. In “Divorce,” for example, she writes: “I choked him in a dream and woke up / choking.” And the title poem rejoices, “Thank God / I’ve the good sense at last // not to come out of the rain.” In celebration of National Poetry Month, Santa Barbara’s former poet laureate David Starkey has compiled a primer of poetry books to read - one for each day of April.Ĭhana Bloch, Swimming in the Rain: New and Selected Poems: While Bloch’s earlier poetry is well crafted, it’s the spare, precise, ironic, and wise poems collected during the last five years that make this new book exceptional. Rilke in his “Letters to a Young Poet.” Following that advice, the 30 poets below did just that. ![]() “Write about your sorrows, your wishes, your passing thoughts, your belief in anything beautiful,” wrote R.M. ![]()
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