Trouble Ball
Martin Espada
(Author)
Description
EXCERPT: On my father's island, there were hurricanes and tuberculosis, dissidents in jail and baseball. The loudspeakers boomed: Satchel Paige pitching for the Brujo 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 Coimbre hit rainmakers for the Leones of Ponce Satchel sat the outfielders in the grass to play poker, windmilled three pitche to the plate, and Pancho spun around three times.
Product Details
Price
$16.95
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date
September 01, 2012
Pages
68
Dimensions
5.4 X 8.3 X 0.4 inches | 0.25 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780393343564
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About the Author
Martin Espada has published nearly twenty books as poet, editor, essayist, and translator. His most recent collection of poems is Vivas to Those Who Have Failed. Other collections of poems include The Trouble Ball, The Republic of Poetry, and Alabanza. Among his many honors is the Shelley Memorial Award. He is professor of English at University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
Reviews
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.
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. "
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. "
