Iguanas on the Tombstones: A Poet’s Metaphor for Colonialism

Iguanas on the Tombstones: A Poet’s Metaphor for Colonialism

By Rich Tenorio | Edited by Patricia GuadalupeIguanas may seem like an unconventional subject for verse. Yet their ubiquitous presence caught the attention of Puerto Rican poet Martín Espada when he visited a historic cemetery in Old San Juan, the burial place of pro-independence voices from political leader Pedro Albizu Campos to poet and political activist José de Diego.