Zapata's Disciple: Essays

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In his first collection of essays, this awardwinning poet turns his fierce critical eye toward as broad range of urgent political cultural issues. With the same insight integrity displayed in his poetry, he chronicles many struggles of the Latino community the backlash against Latino immigrants the Spanish language, the borders of racism, U.S. colonialism in Puerto Rico. He describes how NPR commissioned him to write a poem, then refused to air the work because of its political content a defense of Mumia AbuJamal, the AfricanAmerican journalist on death row. He also take on Nike, which solicited a poem for use in a television commercial as part of its campaign to divert attention from its dismal human rights record in Asian sweatshops.

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