with an economy of language, concealing a dense terrain of imagery and meaning. In this universe, the dead are not ghosts, but fully fleshed--staving off the soldiers, marching in the battlefield, struggling in the streets, and inspiring new generations. Read these and you'll see what I mean: "The Soldiers in the Garden"
Isla Negra, Chile, September 1973
from Blogcritics: The Republic of Poetry--Poems by Martín Espada
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