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How I Found Love Behind the Catcher's Mask: Poems
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Overview
Well known Washington, D.C. poet, former Howard University professor, and literary activist, Ethelbert Miller is personal and political when writing from the batter’s box or pitching mound. Here are poems that tip their caps to Joe DiMaggio, Ken Griffey Sr., and Emmett Ashford.
Miller's book does not duck from examining the Black Sox Scandal, the career of Glenn Burke or the tragedy of Carl Mays. Miller’s own life at times is a playing field for sadness and what
Ellington called “mood indigo.” But his love for baseball is a complete game and continues to reflect the hard heat of pleasure. After If God Invented Baseball and When Your Wife Has Tommy John Surgery and other Baseball Stories, this book, like a triple play, is a thing of beauty.
“Baseball should create a new position, poet laureate, and give it to E. Ethelbert Miller. In his third collection of baseball poems (‘a double turning into a trilogy,’ as he writes), Miller weaves knuckleballs and pickoff throws with universal themes of family, race, relationships—and the issues of our time, like rioting and voting rights. With allusions to Monbouquette and Giacometti, Henderson and Danticat, How I Found Love Behind the Catcher’s Mask will make you laugh, think and feel a whole new way about baseball and the world around it.”—Tyler Kepner, national baseball columnist for the New York Times and author of the best-selling K: A History of Baseball In Ten Pitches
"Ethelbert Miller is one of the most significant and influential poets of our time." Gwendolyn Brooks
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781947951587 |
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Publisher: | City Point Press |
Publication date: | 09/13/2022 |
Pages: | 80 |
Sales rank: | 505,694 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.30(d) |
About the Author
Merrill Leffler is a poet, an editor, a science writer, and a former physicist and engineer. Raised in Brooklyn, New York, and High Point, North Carolina, he earned a BS at North Carolina State University and worked at NASA. He did graduate work in literature at University College Maryland and Oxford University.
He is the author of three books of poetry: Mark the Music (2012), Take Hold (1997), and Partly Pandemonium, Partly Love (1984). He cofounded and edited the literary magazine Dryad, which evolved into an independent press of the same name. He is also a cofounder of the DC-area literary nonprofit The Writer’s Center.
Since 2011, Leffler has been poet laureate of Takoma Park, Maryland, where he lives with his wife, the poet Ann Slayton.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction Merrill Leffler xiii
Mood Indigo 3
Every Buddhist Is a Baseball Player 4
Trade Deadline at the Museum 6
Oranges 7
Baseball Cards 8
Sophisticated Lady 9
Sun Ra Left Me Here Standing in Front of the Sam Gilliam 10
Box Score Sonnet 11
The Sounds of the Game 12
Yoga 13
Radio 14
Wild Pitch 15
Waikin' 16
How I Found Love Behind the Catcher's Mask 17
Losing the Lead and One's Children 18
The Black Sox Scandal 19
Chicago 20
Looking for Sidney Bechet 21
Emmett Ashford 22
Poem for Glenn Burke 23
Carl Mays 24
Jimmy Piersall 25
Ken Griffey Sr. 26
Poem for Stacey Abrams 27
Joe DiMaggio 28
It's Either Baseball or Free Jazz 29
Walking Man 30
Trapped Inside the Glove: The American Pitch 31
Baseball Meditation 32
Inside the Park 33
The Changeup 34
Scouting Report 35
Haiti 36
Runners 37
Pine Tar 38
Beanball #2 39
Death of a Ball Player in 9 Innings 40
The Game 43
The Daily News 44
Beer 45
The Haiku Fan 46
The Losing Streak 47
The Slump 48
The Standings 49
The Walk Off 50
The Shooting 51
Just Be Young for Me 52
I Feel 53
Her 54
Hospice 55
A League of Their Own 56
The Things We Leave Behind 57
Querido Clemente 58