Acknowledged Legislator

Edward J. Carvalho is associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Health Sciences at DeVry University (Philadelphia Metro).

Acknowledged Legislator: Critical Essays on the Poetry of Martín Espada is the first-ever edited collection on poet and activist Martín Espada. With the aid of contributions by established scholars who have a specialized interest in the poet's life and work, its principal aim is to argue for a long overdue critical awareness of and cultural appreciation for Espada and his body of writing.

Acknowledgments Preface Introduction Key to Espada Title Abbreviations I. "My Name Is Espada": Author Profile Martin Espada (1957- ) Cesar A. Salgado II. "[T]o give history a human face": Historical Memory and Political Resistance The Republic of Memory: Martin Espada's Local/Global Poetics of Dissent Maritza Stanchich Martin Espada: Resistance-Postmodern Poet Pauline Uchmanowicz Undoing Macho: Martin Espada's Poetry against Domestic Violence Oscar Sarmiento Muse on First: Baseball in the Poetry of Martin Espada Eric B. Salo (with Edward J. Carvalho) A Poetry like Ammunition: Martin Espada's Poetics of Resistance and Subversion Natasha Azank III. Companero: Labor Advocacy, Economic Concerns, and Class Consciousness "Heart of Hunger": Martin Espada and the Poetry of Liberation Camilo Perez-Bustillo "[T]he black braid of names": A Hemispheric Mapping of Martin Espada's Lyric Monuments Michael Dowdy From the Inner-City to the Cotton Fields: Living and Working Conditions in Martin Espada's Poetry Jeremy Larochelle IV. "The poets must speak": Postscripts and Epilogue La tumba de Buenaventura Roig: Selected Poems/Poemas selectos Book Review The Poet Is a Historian, the Poem Is a Record: Interview with Martin Espada Carmen Dolores Hernandez A Visit to the Bakery: The Martin Espada Papers at Amherst College Peter Nelson The Great Bell in Martin Espada's Chest Andy Croft Bibliography Contributors