Waiting for Godot's First Pitch: More Poems from Baseball - Couverture souple

Peeler, Tim

 
9780786411276: Waiting for Godot's First Pitch: More Poems from Baseball
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0786411279 ISBN 13 : 9780786411276
Editeur : McFarland & Co Inc, 2001

Synopsis

In baseball, as in much poetry, beauty comes from tension. Groundrules and boundaries confine those who would play, but the best find ways to exploit their strictures, and just as the daring base runner takes second on a fly to right, the practiced poet trips the sleepy reader with a surprise rhyme, bold line break, or a jarring reversal of foot. It's no surprise, then, that hardball has a larger body of literature than other sports, or that aficionados are more likely than others to quote lines of verse in support of the game they love.

This is Tim Peeler's second book of poems from baseball. It contains some of his most moving and best-crafted poetry. Starting with time-honored themes--fathers and sons, baseball and time, memory and the nation, team and player and loyalty--the poet adapts the universal to the local and personal, proving that baseball, with its easy accommodation of reflection, remains a powerful tool for mining our individual and collective history.

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À propos de l?auteur

Tim Peeler is a lecturer in English, journal editor, essayist and poet. He is a winner of the Jim Harrison Award for his contributions to baseball poetry and lives in Hickory, North Carolina.

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Éditeur
McFarland & Co Inc
Date d'édition
2001
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0786411279
ISBN 13 
9780786411276
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
128
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Personne responsable
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