{"product_id":"jailbreak-of-sparrows-poems","title":"Jailbreak of Sparrows: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e2026 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Finalist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this brilliant new collection of poems, National Book Award winner Martín Espada offers narratives of the forgotten and the unforgettable.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe poems in \u003ci\u003eJailbreak of Sparrows\u003c\/i\u003e reveal the ways in which the ordinary becomes monumental: family portraits, politically charged reports, and tributes to the unsung. Espada's focus ranges from the bombardment of his family's hometown in Puerto Rico amid an anti-colonial uprising to the murder of a Mexican man by police in California, from the poet's adolescent brawl on a basketball court over martyred baseball hero Roberto Clemente to his unorthodox methods of representing undocumented migrants as a tenant lawyer. We also encounter \"love songs\" to the poet's wife from a series of unexpected voices: a bat with vertigo, the polar bear mascot for a minor league ballclub, a disembodied head in a jar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJailbreak of Sparrows\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of arresting poems that roots itself in the image, the musicality of language, and the depth of human experience. \"\u003ci\u003eLook at this\u003c\/i\u003e was all he said, and all he had to say,\" the poet says about his father, a photographer who documented his Puerto Rican community in Brooklyn and beyond. The poems of Martín Espada tell us: \u003ci\u003eLook.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45920950780077,"sku":"9780593537121","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/6954\/9997\/files\/imageloader_6b63a8ce-f804-44c5-9e5e-a6c325f3dc04.jpg?v=1776540267","url":"https:\/\/thirdspacereadingroom.com\/products\/jailbreak-of-sparrows-poems","provider":"ThirdSpace Reading Room","version":"1.0","type":"link"}