num_pages: 63
description: 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, Martin 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 redemptive justice. Here poets return from the dead, visit in dreams, even rent a helicopter to drop poems on bookmarks.
language: English
title: The Republic of Poetry
titlecomplete: The Republic of Poetry
genres: Poetry, Latin American
ratings_count: 290
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Poetry, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Massachusetts Book Award
category: Poetry
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company