The Trouble Ball: Poems - Brossura

Espada, Martín

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0393343561 ISBN 13: 9780393343564

Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2012

Riassunto

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.

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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. --Antioch Review

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0393343561
• ISBN 13: 9780393343564
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 66
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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