{"product_id":"the-trouble-ball-poems-9780393080032","title":"The Trouble Ball: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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 Pinochet's 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 neighbor's 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/04\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780393080032\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 66\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.52lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 6.20w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Massachusetts Book Award (MassBook) - Winner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/15\/2011 pg. 17\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Mart\u0026#195;\u0026#173;n Espada","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52715382472885,"sku":"9780393080032","price":21.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-trouble-ball-poems-9780393080032","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}