A Study Guide for Martin Espada's "My Father As a Guitar"
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My Father as a Guitar
Martín Espada
2000
Introduction
My Father as a Guitar
is a poem of personal narrative by Martín Espada, one of the most renowned Latino poets in contemporary times. It was published in 2000 in Espada's sixth collection of poetry, A Mayan Astronomer in Hell's Kitchen. Widely known for his activism on behalf of disenfranchised groups, Espada's poetry of advocacy follows the tradition of Walt Whitman and Pablo Neruda. Like them, he speaks for those without a social or political voice. His father, Frank Espada, was heavily involved in the civil rights movement of New York's Puerto Rican community in the 1960s and 1970s. Espada inherited his father's passion to fight for social justice, and it influenced his career both as a poet and as a tenant lawyer in the late 1980s and early 1990s. His roots and his family history are in the Latino working class. In My Father as a Guitar,
Espada uses vivid metaphors to capture the social and economic stress of his father, turning a personal experience into an allegory for all immigrant laborers. The poem is a beautiful example of the way in which Espada uses narratives to humanize underrepresented people and demonstrates his mission of advocacy through poetry.
Author Biography
Espada was born in 1957 in Brooklyn, New York, where he lived in the Linden Projects until the age of thirteen, when his family moved to Valley Stream, Long Island. His Puerto Rican father, Frank Espada, was a documentary photographer and civil rights activist for Latino minority groups, and while growing up Espada was exposed to the politics of the minority working class from an early age. This emphasis on social justice shapes his work and is reflected in nearly every aspect of his career as a writer, editor, attorney, and social advocate.
Espada earned his bachelor's degree in history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a juris doctorate (a professional degree in the legal field) from Northeastern University School of Law in Boston, supporting himself through a series of menial jobs such as bar bouncer, janitor, and encyclopedia salesman. He published his first book of poetry, The Immigrant Iceboy's Bolero, in 1982; it incorporates his father's photography and largely deals with personal experiences of his childhood in Brooklyn. After becoming a lawyer, he stayed close to his roots by specializing in tenant law and legal advocacy for working-class Latinos while