Floaters: Poems

"You’ll read this powerful National Book Award winner in one sitting because Martín Espada is lyrical yet direct with his elegies of love to those burdened with hate. The collection is titled after a term used by some in U.S. Border Patrol to refer to migrants who drown trying to cross over the Río Grande. And Espada, with his eloquent, intimate and sometimes even humorous verses, makes sure we never forget the migrants – beaten, incarcerated, killed – no matter how dangerous or scary the memories are."