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The Trouble Ball: Poems

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The Trouble Ball: Poems

"[Espada is] a bridge between Whitman and Neruda, a conscientious objector in the war of silence."â€•Ilan Stavans
In this new collection of poems, MartÃn 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 KhayyÃ¡m to the death of an "illegal" Mexican immigrant.

from "The Trouble Ball"
Â Â Â Â Â On my father's island, there were hurricanes and tuberculosis, dissidents in jail
Â Â Â Â Â and baseball. The loudspeakers boomed: Satchel Paige pitching for the Brujos
Â Â Â Â Â of Guayama. From the Negro Leagues he brought the gifts of Baltasar the King;
Â Â Â Â Â from a bench on the plaza he told the secrets of a thousand pitches: The Trouble Ball,
Â Â Â Â Â The Triple Curve, The Bat Dodger, The Midnight Creeper, The Slow Gin Fizz,
Â Â Â Â Â The Thoughtful Stuff. Pancho CoÃmbre hit rainmakers for the Leones of Ponce;
Â Â Â Â Â Satchel sat the outfielders in the grass to play poker, windmilled three pitches
Â Â Â Â Â to the plate, and Pancho spun around three times. He couldn't hit The Trouble Ball.
Country USA
Brand W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer W. W. Norton & Company
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2011-04-04
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780393080032

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