Motion: American Sports Poems
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Overview
As Noah Blaustein points out in his preface, among the many parallels made between sports and poetry is the idea of transcendence. Forged from the most basic elements of sport-energy, movement, and rhythm-the poems in this anthology reflect something universal: sport as metaphor, sport as struggle, sport as the battleground for mythic figures and local heroes.
The often celebrated sports-baseball, boxing, football, and basketball-are here along with unexpected pastimes like surfing, skateboarding, tennis, soccer, karate, rock climbing, bowling, and curling. Young and old, black and white, male and female, the poets in this anthology celebrate everyone who has come together in the shimmy and shake and sweat of sport.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780877457558 |
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| Publisher: | University of Iowa Press |
| Publication date: | 04/27/2001 |
| Edition description: | 1 |
| Pages: | 274 |
| Product dimensions: | (w) x (h) x 0.60(d) |
Table of Contents
Foreward by John Edgar WidemanPreface
Diane Ackerman, Pumping Iron
Kim Addonizio, Event
Kim Addonizio, Late Round
Elizabeth Alexander, Narrative: Ali
Sherman Alexie, Penance
Sherman Alexie, Why We Play Basketball
Agha Shāhid Ali , The Jogger on Riverside Drive, 5:00 a.m.
Sam Allen, To Satch
Craig Arnold, Locker Room Etiquette
George Barlow, A Dream of the Ring: The Great Jack Johnson
Dorothy Barresi, Called Up: Tinker to Evers to Chance
Dorothy Barresi, Lifting
Marvin Bell, Slow
Marvin Bell, What They Do to You in Distant Places
Elizabeth Bishop, The Fish
Noah Blaustein, Water & Light
Kendra Borgmann, Rodeo Tangent
Kevin Bowen, Playing Basketball with the Viet Cong
Catherine Bowman, Dove at Sundown
Catherine Bowman, My Knicks Are Going to Beat Your Spurs—NBA Souvenir Bracelet 1999 for my Long Distance Love
Ralph Burns, Fishing in Winter
Ralph Burns, Memory
Douglas Carlson, Russ Joy Little League
Hayden Carruth, Capper Kaplinski at the North Side Cue Club
Raymond Carver, The Catch
Olena Kalytiak Davis, Moorer Denies Holyfield in Twelve
Mike Delp, Fishing the Dream
James Dickey, For the Death of Vince Lombardi
Norman Dubie, The Death of the Race Car Driver
Stephen Dunn, Competition
Stephen Dunn, Criminal
Stephen Dunn, Day and Night Handball
Cornelius Eady, Jack Johnson Does the Eagle Rock
John Engels, Bullhead
Martín Espada, The Man Who Beat Hemingway
David Allan Evans, Pole Vaulter
David Allan Evans, Song of Racquetball
B. H. Fairchild, Body and Soul
B. H. Fairchild, Old Men Playing Basketball
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Baseball Canto
Gary Fincke, Class A, Salem, the Rookie League
Robert Francis, Pitcher
Robert Francis, The Rock Climbers
Robert Francis, Two Wrestlers
Carol Frost, Custom
Carol Frost, To Kill a Deer
Brendan Galvin, The Knot Hole Gang
Brendan Galvin, Running
James Galvin, Shadow-Casting
Gary Gildner, 4th Base
Louise Glück, The Racer’s Widow
Linda Gregerson, Line Drive Caught by the Grace of God
Thom Gun, Skateboard
Donald Hall, The Fifth Inning
Donald Hall, The Eighth Inning
Forrest Hamer, Allegiance
Michael S. Harper, Archives
Michael S. Harper, Homage to the Brown Bomber
Michael S. Harper, Makin’ Jump Shots
Jeffrey Harrison, Hitting Golfballs off the Bluff
James Haug, Pool Is a Godless Sport
Robery Hayden, The Diver
David Hayward, To the Man Saying “Come on Seis” at Hollywood Park
William Heyen, Mantle
William Heyen, The Stadium
Frank Higgins, Tennis in the City
Brenda Hillman, The Y
David Hilton, I Try to Turn in My Jock
Edward Hirsch, Fast Break
Jonathan Holden, How to Play Night Baseball
Jonathan Holden, A Poem of Ed “Whitey” Ford
Paul Hoover,Baseball
Richard Hugo, From Altitude, the Diamonds
Richard Hugo, Letter to Mantsch from Havre
Richard Hugo, Missoula Softball Tournament
David Ignatow, The Boxing Match