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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.
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