Description
In this new collection of poems, Martín Espada crosses the borderlands of epiphany and blasphemy: from a pilgrimage to the tomb of Frederick Douglass to an encounter with the swimming pool at a center of torture and execution in Chile, from the adolescent discovery of poet Omar Khayyám to the death of an illegal Mexican immigrant.
from The Trouble Ball
On my father's island, there were hurricanes and tuberculosis, dissidents in jail
and baseball. The loudspeakers boomed: Satchel Paige pitching for the Brujos
of Guayama. From the Negro Leagues he brought the gifts of Baltasar the King;
from a bench on the plaza he told the secrets of a thousand pitches: The Trouble Ball,
The Triple Curve, The Bat Dodger, The Midnight Creeper, The Slow Gin Fizz,
The Thoughtful Stuff. Pancho Coímbre hit rainmakers for the Leones of Ponce;
Satchel sat the outfielders in the grass to play poker, windmilled three pitches
to the plate, and Pancho spun around three times. He couldn't hit The Trouble Ball.
Author: Martín Espada
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 09/04/2012
Pages: 68
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9780393343564
ISBN10: 0393343561
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | General
from The Trouble Ball
On my father's island, there were hurricanes and tuberculosis, dissidents in jail
and baseball. The loudspeakers boomed: Satchel Paige pitching for the Brujos
of Guayama. From the Negro Leagues he brought the gifts of Baltasar the King;
from a bench on the plaza he told the secrets of a thousand pitches: The Trouble Ball,
The Triple Curve, The Bat Dodger, The Midnight Creeper, The Slow Gin Fizz,
The Thoughtful Stuff. Pancho Coímbre hit rainmakers for the Leones of Ponce;
Satchel sat the outfielders in the grass to play poker, windmilled three pitches
to the plate, and Pancho spun around three times. He couldn't hit The Trouble Ball.
Author: Martín Espada
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 09/04/2012
Pages: 68
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9780393343564
ISBN10: 0393343561
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | General