Watch Martín Espada's passionate reading of "Alabanza: in Praise of Local 100," a poem that memorializes those who perished during the World Trade Center attacks while working at the Windows on the World restaurant.
Alabanza is a Spanish word meaning "praise or admiration," which is often presented in the form of song or music. In this work, Espada memorializes, with passion and pathos, the 43 members of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Local 100, who perished during the World Trade Center attacks while working at the Windows on the World restaurant.
Robin Ouzman Hislop's poetry is certainly in dialogue with some of the key architects of the 'poetics of indeterminacy' – both the Modernist strands represented by the likes of Beckett and Stein, and the postmodernist strands represented, initially,
This collection of poetry addresses the nature of time, reflections on the natural world, the difficulty of loss,
contemporary social issues and gratitude for life.
