Floaters: Poems

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Much of his poetry arises from his Puerto Rican heritage and his work experiences, ranging from bouncer to tenant lawyer. It was hard hit by Hurricane Maria in September, 2017, as were many of the small towns and villages in the mountains. Wambaugh still prefers the company of police officers and interviews hundreds of them for story material. There's a great balance between some of the more devastating influences that Espada pulls from (notably, the title term and its origins) and the poems that look more inward, that find hope and light in that same devastation. He was a police officer with the LAPD for 14 years before retiring in 1974, during which time he published three bestselling novels.

Photopsias also are reported due to the stimulation of the retina from vitreoretinal traction and pulling. This is an important volume that enriches the prose poem while also motivating me to explore more Puerto Rican literature.

The final section consists of eulogies for Espada's colleagues whose work illuminates the issues he's concerned with. Moving and impactful poems of social conscience, sweet and bitter remembrances, and imaginative odes. I also really appreciated the explanatory notes on the poems in the back of the book, which I wish more poets would include in their collections.

A former tenant lawyer in greater Boston, now an English professor at UMass Amherst, Espada lands jabs of bright, hard wisdom. It is based on over 6,000 procedures by the author during his 29 years of floater treatment and has already been purchased by and has taught the procedure to over 500 eye surgeons worldwide. Two years earlier he’d gone to the trouble of capturing a ground squirrel and putting it in the bottom drawer of the sergeant’s desk. appreciate and surprised by the notes on the poems, very nice touch and inspiring for my own use of quotes and real events in writing.The e-book you will download is improved over the hard-back version since it: (1) has been updated to 2019, (2) has 112 colored illustrations (hard-back had 36), and (3) in the index, 24 of the most helpful and essential topics have been high-lighted in red.