In this new collection of poems, Martin 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 Khayyam 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 Coimbre 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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