| #1459665 in Books | 2016-10-01 | Original language:English | 8.50 x.70 x5.50l,.0 | File type: PDF | 160 pages||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| A powerful book of essays that takes the ordinary and makes it extraordinary and raw with emotion and the beautiful way the auth|By E. T|A book which will make you stop and think and which you will want to read again and again. A powerful book of essays that takes the ordinary and makes it extraordinary and raw with emotion and the beautiful way the author writes.|0 of 0 peopl||
"After all, 'any progressive social change must be imagined first,' and lately Espada has been doing a lot of imagination. Here he sets down not merely the basis of his convictions but their putative outcome. He has clarified an aesthetics of activism."--
The ferocious acumen with which the award-winning poet Martín Espada attacks issues of social injustice in Zapata’s Disciple makes it no surprise that the book has been the subject of bans in both Arizona and Texas, targeted for its presence in the Mexican American Studies curriculum of Tucson’s schools and for its potential to incite a riot among Texas prison populations. This new edition of Zapata’s Disciple, which won the...
You easily download any file type for your device.Zapata's Disciple: Essays (Curbstone) | Martín Espada. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.