Colibri | Critical Overview
The bilingual collection in which “Colibrí” appears, Rebellion Is the Circle of a Lover’s Hands, was awarded the 1989 PEN/Revson Award and garnered a good deal of praise from reviewers. Writing for Publishers Weekly, Penny Kaganoff notes, “All the poems are fine, but Espada is at his best in his pieces about the plight of migrant workers and refugees from Central America.” Sam Cornish, in a review for Ploughshares, calls Espada “talented and promising” and writes, “Espada’s work has integrity mingled with an ironic and sometimes bitter...
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