Line Drives: 100 Contemporary Baseball Poems (Writing Baseball THE SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY PRESS SERIES)

Brooke Horvath and Tim Wiles, Editors

ISBN 10: 0809324407 / ISBN 13: 9780809324408

Verlag: Southern Illinois University Press First Edition, 2002

Beschreibung

The book provided a forum for 92 poets, writing on a subject they all loved. Poems include Asked For A Happy Memory of Her Father, She Remembers, Wrigley Field; Where Baseball's the Only Game in Town; Winter at the Ball Field; Dreams Should Not Dog Great Center Fielders; Night Baseball in the American West; and so much more. Just a great book to sit down, read and dream about baseball in your life. First Edition with all numbers from 1 to 4 present, in very good condition. I have around 100 items on Baseball Poetry and more than 2,300 Baseball Publications in stock. Discounts available when you purchase multiple items on the same order.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Line Drives: 100 Contemporary Baseball Poems (Writing Baseball THE SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY PRESS SERIES)
• Verlag: Southern Illinois University Press First Edition
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0809324407
• ISBN-13: 9780809324408
• Einband: Soft cover
• Auflage: 1st Edition
• Zustand: Very Good
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket
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Inhaltsangabe

“We wait for baseball all winter long,” Bill Littlefield wrote in Boston Magazine a decade ago, “or rather, we remember it and anticipate it at the same time. We re-create what we have known and we imagine what we are going to do next. Maybe that’s what poets do, too.”

Poetry and baseball are occasions for well-put passion and expressive pondering, and just as passionate attention transforms the prose of everyday life into poetry, it also transforms this game we write about, play, or watch. Editors Brooke Horvath and Tim Wiles unite their own passion for baseball and poetry in this collection, Line Drives: 100 Contemporary Baseball Poems, providing a forum for ninety-two poets. Line after line, like baseball itself game after game and season after season, these poems manage to make the old and the familiar new and surprising.

The poems in these pages invite interrogation, and the reader—like the true baseball fan—must be willing to play the game, for these poems are fun, fresh, angry, nostalgic, meditative, and meant to be read aloud. They are keen on taking us deeply into baseball as sport and intent on offering countless metaphors for exploring history, religion, love, family, and self-identity. Each poem delivers images of pure beauty as the poets speak of murder and ghost runners and old ball gloves, of baseball as a tie that binds families—and indeed the nation—together, of the game as a stage upon which no-nonsense grit and skill are routinely displayed, and of the delight experienced in being one amid a mindlessly happy crowd. This book is true to the game’s long season and to the lives of those the game engages.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Brooke Horvath is a professor of English at Kent State University and the author of two collections of poetry—In a Neighborhood of Dying Light and Consolation at Ground Zero. He has served as a book review editor for Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature.

Tim Wiles is the director of research at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. His baseball writings include a column, “Letters in the Dirt,” in the Cooperstown Freeman’s Journal and poems in Elysian Fields Quarterly and Fan.