Floaters
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Why read it?
1 author picked Floaters as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Martin Espada’s poems continually wow me, both with the way he uses language and with his choice of material.
This collection includes the poem “Floaters,” the word used by Border Patrol to describe those who die crossing the river, and specifically the incident where a father and daughter died attempting to swim across the Rio Grande, and Border Patrol insisted the photo was fake.
Having witnessed at the child detention center in Homestead, Florida, Espada’s poem "Ode to the Soccer Ball Sailing Across the Barbed Wire Fence" also rang with compassion for the children separated from their parents and locked…
From D.'s list on books portraying the human side of the immigration “crisis”.
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