Trouble Ball: Poems - Softcover

Espada, Martin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393343561 ISBN 13: 9780393343564

Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

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. 

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Martín Espada has published more than twenty books as a poet, editor, essayist and translator, including Vivas to Those Who Have Failed and Pulitzer finalist The Republic of Poetry. His many honors include the Ruth Lilly Prize, the Shelley Memorial Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Born in Brooklyn, he now lives in western Massachusetts.

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• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0393343561
• ISBN 13: 9780393343564
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 68
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