{"product_id":"the-trouble-ball-poems-039308003x-used","title":"The Trouble Ball: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 039308003X\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Espada, Mart\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Used\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[Espada is] a bridge between Whitman and Neruda, a conscientious objector in the war of silence.\" -Ilan StavansIn this collection of poems, Martín 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 Pinochets Chile; the city park where the poet clumsily buries the ashes of a friend; the tomb of Frederick Douglass, now a place of pilgrimage. Espada also traces the footsteps of his own history, from his brawls in the schoolyard to his days selling encyclopedias door-to-door. He observes the tender gestures of worlds half in shadow, where an illegal immigrant gazes at the snapshots of her wedding to a stranger, or a high school wrestler helps to carry an evicted neighbors couch back into her apartment. And he urges us to envision justice, to \"bury what we call \/ the impossible, the unthinkable, the unimaginable, now and forever.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67889534730528,"sku":"USED039308003X","price":11.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/61Mi0THvulL_6abbd8e6-0e46-4365-ae3f-8def51b93b07.jpg?v=1792542726","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-trouble-ball-poems-039308003x-used","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}