Preface -- Introduction: acknowledging Espada / Edward J. Carvalho -- Martin Espada: (1957- ) / César A. Salgado -- The Republic of memory: Martín Espada's local/global poetics of dissent / Maritza Stanchich -- Martín Espada: resistance-postmodern poet / Pauline Uchmanowicz -- Undoing Macho: Martín Espada's poetry against domestic violence / Oscar D. Sarmiento -- Muse on first: baseball in the poetry of Martín Espada / Eric B. Salo (with Edward J. Carvalho) -- A poetry like ammunition: Martín Espada's poetics of resistance and subversion / Natasha Azank -- Heart of hunger: Martín Espada and the poetry of liberation / Camilo Pérez-Bustillo -- The black braid of names: a hemispheric mapping of Martín Espada's lyric monuments / Michael Dowdy -- From the inner city to the cotton fields: living and working conditions in Martín Espada's poetry / Jeremy Larochelle -- La tumba de Buenaventura Roig: selected poems/poemas selectos / Carmen Dolores Hernández -- The poet is a historian, the poem is a record: interview with Martín Espada / Carmen Dolores Hernández -- A visit to the bakery: the Martín Espada papers at Amherst College / Peter Nelson -- The great bell in Martín Espada's chest / Andy Croft.