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How We Could Have Lived or Died This Way

By Martín Espada Vivas to Those Who Have Failed
The poet Martin Espada, called the North American Pablo Neruda, turns his eye to the continuing murders of non-white peoples and asks how people in the future will look back at our times, wondering "how we could have lived or died this way, how the descendants of slaves still fled and the descendants of slave-catchers still shot them."

How We Could Have Lived or Died This Way

Martin Espada Vivas to Those Who Have Failed
Martin Espada, “The Pablo Neruda of North American poets," according to Sandra Cisneros, turns his critical eye to the persistence of racist murders in our times.