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Martín Espada – Activist and Poet

Martín Espada, Latino poet and professor in the USA, talks about how poetry allowed him as a young man to express his experiences of social injustice. He has just published a new collection, A Mayan Astronomer in Hell's Kitchen to follow the success of his 1996 volume, Imagine the Angels of Bread.

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Â鶹ԼÅÄ World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project