Using his beloved pastime of baseball as an allegory, poet Gustavo Adolfo Aybar debuts a tour de force meditation on the battle for the soul of the Dominican Republic.
Alabanza...and one said with a Spanish tongue:
let me play; we have no field here.
And the other said with an African tongue,
I will let you play. Baseball is all we have.
--from We Seek Asylum
Using his beloved pastime of baseball as an allegory, poet Gustavo Adolfo Aybar debuts a tour de force meditation on the battle for the soul of the Dominican Republic.
Alabanza...and one said with a Spanish tongue:
let me play; we have no field here.
And the other said with an African tongue,
I will let you play. Baseball is all we have.
--from We Seek Asylum