Baseball Poetry
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Re: Baseball Poetry
"Clothespins" by Stuart Dybek: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/ ... lothespins
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Re: Baseball Poetry
Richard Brautigan, "A Baseball Game, Part 7":
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Re: Baseball Poetry
That’s not a poem, that’s a Brautigan.
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Re: Baseball Poetry
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, "Baseball Canto": http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/ ... canto.html
The link is to a page created by one of my former professors, Al Filreis at the University of Pennsylvania.
The link is to a page created by one of my former professors, Al Filreis at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Re: Baseball Poetry
Franklin Pierce Adams, "A Ballad of Baseball Burdens": https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/ ... ll-burdens
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Re: Baseball Poetry
This reminds me of a scathing review that Randall Jarrell wrote, in which he said that Oscar Williams' poems "gave the impression of being written on a typewriter by a typewriter."lukethedrifter wrote:That’s not a poem, that’s a Brautigan.
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Re: Baseball Poetry
Sigh, I guess this means you are putting together that basebal poetry compilation you've been putting off.
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Re: Baseball Poetry
Actually, I keep stumbling on baseball anthologies. I've already bookmarked four or five baseball or sports anthologies, and I keep stumbling across poems and even entire books of baseball poems, but with not available link to post them here.Joe Shlabotnik wrote:Sigh, I guess this means you are putting together that basebal poetry compilation you've been putting off.
In addition, if I have online access to the various Columbia Granger's indexes to poetry, I could put together lists of this stuff in my sleep.
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For instance, Southern Illinois University Press has a book series entitled Writing Baseball:http://siupress.com/series/writing-baseball
One book that stands out is Line Drives: 100 Contemporary Baseball Poems. I even found an Adobe Acrobat file with the table of contents: http://www.gbv.de/dms/goettingen/341397016.pdf
One book that stands out is Line Drives: 100 Contemporary Baseball Poems. I even found an Adobe Acrobat file with the table of contents: http://www.gbv.de/dms/goettingen/341397016.pdf