The Trouble Ball - by Martín Espada (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"[An] important work . . . inspiring its readers to greater human connection and to keep fighting the good fight."--<em>The Rumpus</em><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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.<br /><br /> from The Trouble Ball<br /> <em>On my father's island, there were hurricanes and tuberculosis, dissidents in jail<br /> and baseball. The loudspeakers boomed: Satchel Paige pitching for the Brujos<br /> of Guayama. From the Negro Leagues he brought the gifts of Baltasar the King;<br /> from a bench on the plaza he told the secrets of a thousand pitches: The Trouble Ball, <br /> The Triple Curve, The Bat Dodger, The Midnight Creeper, The Slow Gin Fizz, <br /> The Thoughtful Stuff. Pancho Coímbre hit rainmakers for the Leones of Ponce;<br /> Satchel sat the outfielders in the grass to play poker, windmilled three pitches<br /> to the plate, and Pancho spun around three times. He couldn't hit The Trouble Ball.</em><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Espada s avuncular charm his warm, earnest, sly voice finds intimacy in the lives of public figures and emblematic weight in his own stories . . . playful, earthy, both welcoming and roaring its vision of inclusion and fairness. . . . [T]he book enacts this ethos beautifully. "<br><br>Espada 's avuncular charm his warm, earnest, sly voice finds intimacy in the lives of public figures and emblematic weight in his own stories . . . playful, earthy, both welcoming and roaring its vision of inclusion and fairness. . . . [T]he book enacts this ethos beautifully.<br>
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