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Citizen Illegal
by Jose Olivarez
(Haymarket Books, £12.99)
ACCORDING to the poet and activist Martin Espada, within the “Latinx” community — people of Latin American origin or descent living in the US or elsewhere in the Anglo world — there is “the open expression of anger and grief, the music of protest, the search for a reflection of one’s face after the mirror is broken.”
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