A Mayan Astronomer in Hell's Kitchen: Poems Book

	My Name Is Espada	15
	Preciosa Like a Last Cup of Coffee	17
	The Shiny Aluminum of God	19
	My Father As a Guitar	22
	For the Jim Crow Mexican Restaurant in Cambridge, Massachusetts Where My Cousin Esteban Was Forbidden to Wait Tables Because He Wears Dreadlocks	23
	Pegao	25
	The Governor of Puerto Rico Reveals at His Inaugural That He Is the Reincarnation of Ponce de Leon	26
	Ornithology at the Caribe Hilton	28
	The Rage of Plantation Days	30
	What Francisco Louis Espada Learned at Age Five, Standing on the Dock	31
	The Mexican Cabdriver's Poem for His Wife, Who Has Left Him	35
	A Mayan Astronomer in Hell's Kitchen	36
	The Janitor's Garden	37
	The Death of Carmen Miranda	39
	The Community College Revises Its Curriculum in Response to Changing Demographics	40
	Thanksgiving	41
	Pitching the Potatoes	43
	Genuflection in Right Field	45
	The Ghost in the Trunk of the Car	47
	The Man Who Owns the Dumpster Owns the Books	50
	Ode to Your Earrings	52
	I Apologize for Giving You Poison Ivy by Smacking You in the Eye with the Crayfish at the End of My Fishing Line	54
	Why I Went to College	56
	Crucifixion in the Plaza de Armas	59
	Companero Poet and the Surveillance of Sheep	60
	A Cigarette's Iris in the Eye of a Candle	63
	Anarchism and the Parking Meter	66
	The Carpenter Swam to Spain	67
	The Eleventh Reason	70
	Another Nameless Prostitute Says the Man Is Innocent	74
	Prisoner AM-8335 and His Library of Lions	78
	The River Will Not Testify	80
	Glossary	83
	Biographical Note	86