The Republic of Poetry Poems Author:Martin Espada The heart of this collection is a cycle of Chile poems by "the Pablo Neruda of North American authors" (Sandra Cisneros). — In his eighth collection of poems, Martín Espada celebrates the power of poetry itself. The Republic of Poetry is a place of odes and elegies, collective memory and hidden history, miraculous happenings and red... more »emptive justice. Here poets return from the dead, visit in dreams, even rent a helicopter to drop poems on bookmarks.« less