from The Ruth Lilly Prize Portfolio, Poetry Magazine
"Aubade With Concussion"
"Jumping Off the Mystic Tobin Bridge"
"Not For Him the Fiery Lake of the False Prophet"
"Jumping Off the Mystic Tobin Bridge"
"Not For Him the Fiery Lake of the False Prophet"
from Vivas to Those Who Have Failed
"Vivas to Those Who Have Failed"
"How We Could Have Lived or Died This Way"
"Castles for The Laborers and Ballgames on the Radio"
"Hard-Handed Men of Athens"
"Haunt Me"
"El Moriviví"
"How We Could Have Lived or Died This Way"
"Castles for The Laborers and Ballgames on the Radio"
"Hard-Handed Men of Athens"
"Haunt Me"
"El Moriviví"
from The Trouble Ball
"The Trouble Ball"
"Blessed Be the Truth-Tellers"
"The Playboy Calendar and the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám"
"Isabel's Corrido"
"The Swimming Pool at Villa Grimaldi"
"Litany at the Tomb of Frederick Douglass"
"Blessed Be the Truth-Tellers"
"The Playboy Calendar and the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám"
"Isabel's Corrido"
"The Swimming Pool at Villa Grimaldi"
"Litany at the Tomb of Frederick Douglass"
from The Republic of Poetry
"The Republic of Poetry"
"Not Here"
"The Soldiers in the Garden"
"City of Glass"
"Return"
"You Got a Song, Man"
"Not Here"
"The Soldiers in the Garden"
"City of Glass"
"Return"
"You Got a Song, Man"
from Alabanza: New & Selected Poems (1982-2002)
"Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100"
"Now the Dead Will Dance the Mambo"
"En la calle San Sebastián"
"The Poet in the Box"
"Imagine the Angels of Bread"
"Coca-Cola and Coco Frío"
"Federico's Ghost"
"Jorge the Church Janitor Finally Quits"
"Mariano Explains Yanqui Colonialism to Judge Collings"
"My Cockroach Lover"
"Sleeping on the Bus"
"My Name is Espada"
"Now the Dead Will Dance the Mambo"
"En la calle San Sebastián"
"The Poet in the Box"
"Imagine the Angels of Bread"
"Coca-Cola and Coco Frío"
"Federico's Ghost"
"Jorge the Church Janitor Finally Quits"
"Mariano Explains Yanqui Colonialism to Judge Collings"
"My Cockroach Lover"
"Sleeping on the Bus"
"My Name is Espada"