Archive for October 3rd, 2004

Martin Espada’s “My Native Costume”

Sunday, October 3rd, 2004
Here’s a final poem from Martin Espada’s Imagine the Angels of Bread, one that, while perhaps not as shocking as the previous poem, almost seems to suggest that the prejudice against minorities is deeper than the previous poem suggested. Despite the fact that the narrator has managed to become successful enough to become a lawyer [...]