{"product_id":"jailbreak-of-sparrows-1","title":"Jailbreak of Sparrows","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eJailbreak of Sparrows\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eMartín Espada\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780593537121\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eKnopf\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2025\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e128\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Knopf","offers":[{"title":"Jailbreak of Sparrows | Martín Espada | Hardcover | 9780593537121 | New | Poetry 1669774","offer_id":50789368267010,"sku":"1669774","price":39.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/81zhRp9oDaL_4148efbf-2cfb-441f-8684-0c50752d554d.jpg?v=1792303793","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/jailbreak-of-sparrows-1","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}