The Trouble Ball: Poems Book

Hardcover. Pub Date: 2011 Pages: 66 Publisher: WW Norton & Co. In this new collection of poems. Martin 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 Khayyam 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 ujos of Guayama. From the Negro Leagues he ought 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 Coime hit rainmakers for the Leones of Ponce...Read More