This new edition of Zapata's Disciple, which won the 1999 Independent Publisher Book Award for Creative Nonfiction/Memoir, opens with a new essay on this history of censorship and continues Espada's lifelong fight for freedom of expression.
The ferocious acumen with which the award-winning poet Martín Espada attacks issues of social injustice in Zapata's Disciple makes it no surprise that the book has been the subject of bans in both Arizona and Texas. This new edition of Zapata's Disciple opens with an introduction in which the author chronicles this history of censorship and continues his lifelong fight for freedom of expression.