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Podcast: Poetry Unbound
Episode: Esteban RodrÃguez — 22 La Bota
Description: A poet considers his father, and, particularly, his father’s boots. These boots could be a hammer, a prop, a weapon. But Esteban RodrÃguez also remembers how his father — a sleepwalker — would walk outside at night in his underwear, wielding his boots, slapping them against each other in a kind of protective ritual. What spirits was his father protecting them from? What was he asserting about land and place, by standing guard, even in his dreams?Esteban RodrÃguez is the author of five poetry collections, most recently, The Valley. His debut essay collection Before the Earth Dev...