it? Do chickens have lips?... We were political exiles and this country gave us a home. This country saved us from a lot of grief. It has given me everything that I really love in the world. It has given me a wonderful husband, wonderful children who were born here, a career that I have loved all of my life, and friends that I probably don’t deserve. So I have a number of things that I need to be grateful for. There are some powerful feelings that I have about this country." In a January 2021 interview, Espaillat praised senior members of the Republican Party for having urged Donald Trump in vain to concede the 2020 Presidential Election, "I am very sorry for the mistakes he has made because I am not a one-party person. I don't believe that any democracy can survive with one party alone. We need something to argue over because that is the way that we arrive at the right way to do things." In the same interview, Espaillat expressed hope that the political polarization of the American people can be overcome, "This is a country that is full of good people who have welcomed immigrants like me in the past. I feel like I was born here, even though I wasn't and this is the story of many, many people who have been saved by coming here. I believe in the Statue of Liberty, I believe in the torch." Publications Bilingual Mundo y palabra/The World and the Word (2001), Oyster River Press Agua de dos ríos: Poemas, prosa y traducciones – una coleccíon bilingüe'''' (2006) Dominican Ministry of Culture In English Where Horizons Go: Poems (1998) Rehearsing Absence (2001) The Shadow I Dress In (2004) The Story-Teller's Hour (2004) Playing at Stillness (2005) Her Place in These Designs (2008) And After All (2018) The Field (2019) In Spanish Oscura fruta: cuarenta y dos poemas (2013) (42 translations into Spanish of poems by Richard Wilbur), Ediciones El Tucán de Virginia, Mexico City Algo hay que no es amigo de Los muros: cuarenta poemas (2014) (40 translations into Spanish of poems by Robert Frost), Ediciones El Tucán de Virginia, Mexico City References Further reading William Baer (2016), Thirteen on Form: Conversations with Poets, Measure Press. Nancy Kang and Silvio Torres-Saillant (2018), The Once and Future Muse: The Poetry and Poetics of Rhina P. Espaillat, University of Pittsburgh