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 * ==Martín Espada [[image:http://www.yesmagazine.org/images/issues/28/11martinespada.jpg width="220" height="248" caption="Martin Espada. Photo by Stephen Long."]] ==

[|Image from Yes! Magazine]
||> ==Biography== Espada has had his poetry collections featured in many books, as well as his own. He has also received many achievments for his works. Several of his works and their achievments include, but are not limited to: Espada's work has been featured in many periodicals such as //The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, Harper’s, The Nation,// and //The Best American Poetry.// Martín is currently teaching creative writing and the works of Pablo Neruda in the Department of English at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. ||
 * Martín Espada** (* 1957 in Brooklyn, New York, USA) was involved in a political environment at a very young age. His father was a leader in the Puerto Rican community of Brooklyn and aided in the civil rights movement. Espada attended the University of Wisconsin, where he received a bachlor's associate degree in history. Soon after, he attended Northeastern University, where he received a Judicial Doctorette. Martín has had a very interesting life, going from a bouncer at a club to a tenant lawyer. Ever since graduating from Northeastern, he has published thirteen books as a poet, essayist, editor, and translator. Sandra Cisneros, a famous Hispanic author, says “Martín Espada is the Pablo Neruda of North American authors.”
 * //Rebellion is the Circle of a Lover’s Hands// (Curbstone, 1990)
 * //City of Coughing and Dead Radiators// (Norton, 1993)
 * //Imagine the Angels of Bread// (Norton, 1996): an American Book Award, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
 * //A Mayan Astronomer in Hell’s Kitchen// (Norton, 2000)
 * Alabanza: New and Selected Poems, 1982-2002 (Norton, 2003): the Paterson Award for Sustained Literary Achievement, an American Library Association Notable Book of the Year
 * //The Republic of Poetry// (Norton, 2006)

Poetry links [|Something Escaping a Bonfire] ||
 * * [|Return]
 * [|General Pinochet at the Bookstore]
 * [|Something Escapes the Bonfire]
 * [|The Poet's Coat]
 * [|The Caves of Camuy] ||> [[image:http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40989000/jpg/_40989666_bonfire_parson_416.jpg width="215" height="215" caption="The Bonfire"]]

==Explication of "Return" by Mart    ==


[|Image from Apartment Therapy]

The poem “Return” by Martin Espada is about, a man that once was living in apartment 14-F, he was bleeding excessively, and there was a war on television. The man was too hurt to respond to anyone so he just lay there in silence until he finally got up and went door to door asking for someone to help him on his way home. to apartment. The public housing director was very welcoming too. Then, about forty years later, there was still a war on television and the bleeding man was all healed and he went back to the same hallway that he was hurt in. The housing director was not very welcoming this time. The man just sat in front of apartment 14-F with his hand on the door.



Sources
Espada, Martín, ed. "Poet, Essayist, Editor & Translator." __Martín Espada__. 7 Dec. 2008 .

Espada, Martín. "General Pinochet at the Bookstore." __Martín Espada__. 7 Dec. 2008 .

Espada, Martín. "Something Escapes the Bonfire." __Martín Espada__. 7 Dec. 2008 .

Espada, Martín. "The caves of Camuy." __Martín Espada__. 7 Dec. 2008 <http://www.martinespada.net/the_caves_of_camuy.htm>.

Espada, Martín. "The Poet’s Coat." __Martín Espada__. 7 Dec. 2008 <http://www.martinespada.net/coat.htm>.

Espada, Martín. "Return." __Martín Espada__. 7 Dec. 2008 <http://www.martinespada.net/return.htm>.

Long, Stephen. "Poetry by Martín Espada." __Yes! Magazine__. Positive Futures Network. 8 Dec. 2008 <http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?id=1821>.

Johnson, Stephen. __Hallway__. <http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/ny/good-questions/good-questions-what-to-do-with-uws-hallway-010844,> Apartment Therapy, New York.