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Summer 2024 • Vol. XLVI No. 3 • Extinction |

My Beloved the Blasphemer Causes a Scuffle at the Bar

By Martín Espada

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Martín Espada’s latest book of poems is Floaters (W. W. Norton, 2021), a winner of the 2021 National Book Award. His next collection, Jailbreak of Sparrows, is forthcoming from Knopf in spring 2025. Espada has received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Shelley Memorial Award, an Academy of American Poets Fellowship, a Letras Boricuas Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

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