The Trouble Ball: Poems

by Martín Espada

Book Overview

In this collection of poems, Mart n Espada crosses the borderlands of epiphany and blasphemy: Ebbets Field, Brooklyn, in 1941, where his Puerto Rican father realizes, at the age of eleven, that dark-skinned players are not allowed on the field; the swimming pool for guards and their families at Villa Grimaldi, a center of interrogation, torture, and execution in Pinochet's Chile; the city park where the poet clumsily buries the ashes of a friend;...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039308003X
• ISBN13: 9780393080032
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 66 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 8.3"