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Casey at the bat : a ballad of the Republic, sung in the year 1888
The popular narrative poem about a celebrated baseball player who strikes out at the crucial moment of a game, with additional text placing it in the context of Little League.
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Zeppo's first wife
Widely acclaimed for expanding the stylistic boundaries of both the narrative and meditative lyric, Gail Mazur’s poetry crackles with verbal invention as she confronts the inevitable upheavals of a lived life. Zeppo’s First Wife, which includes excerpts from Mazur’s four previous books, as well as twenty-two new poems, is epitomized by the worldly longing of the title poem, with its searching poignancy and comic bravura. Mazur’s explorations of “this fallen world, this loony world” are deeply moving acts of empathy by a singular moral sensibility—evident from the earliest poem included here, the much-anthologized “Baseball,” a stunning bird’s-eye view of human foibles and passions. Clear-eyed, full of paradoxical griefs and appetites, her poems brave the most urgent subjects—from the fraught luscious Eden of the ballpark, to the fragility of our closest human ties, to the implications for America in a world where power and war are cataclysmic for the strong as well as the weak.
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Loved It: The Boys of Summer
Roger Kahn aspired to be a writer. When the crunch came, he promised himself to write one book, his book, about the things and places and people he loved. That his subject was baseball is particularly American. Writers had been inspired by organized baseball almost from its beginning. In The Boys of Summer Kahn is fan, reporter, and literary artist. His book is a classic. Here, Kubara shares his views of the iconic baseball book.
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DRAMAS OF DECLINE AND FALL
The Index of Self-Destructive Acts: A Novel BY CHRISTOPHER BEHA TIN HOUSE, 528 PAGES, $27.95 Missionaries: A Novel BY PHIL KLAY PENGUIN, 416 PAGES, $28 In 2013, Dana Gioia argued in these pages that \"although Roman Catholicism constitutes the largest religious and cultural group in the United States, Catholicism currently enjoys almost no positive presence in the American fine arts.\" The sense that I am alone, that none can hear me, none can understand, that no one answers my cries, it is a sickness over which, to borrow from Bernanos, \"the vast tide of divine love, that sea of living, roaring flame which gave birth to all things, passes vainly.\" Frank has always wanted to write a political magnum opus, but it is his baseball books-The Crack of the Bat and The Smell of the Grass-that remain his greatest achievement. The cast of characters grows to include the rest of Doyle's family: his investment banker wife, Kit; his grad student daughter, Margo, who aspires to write poetry; and his son, Eddie, who chose to enlist in the armed forces rather than accept a cushy job in some Manhattan skyscraper, but who is now struggling to recover a sense of meaning or purpose after his experience of war.
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Baseball and Beloved Community in the Memoirs and Poetry of E. Ethelbert Miller
Developing what I term a “baseball imaginary,” E. Ethelbert Miller invokes the national pastime in his memoirs and poetry as a vehicle for reckoning with antiblackness on the one hand and realizing the promise of beloved community on the other. Indeed, Miller has contributed more to the Black baseball literature corpus than any other writer, but his renderings of baseball have yet to receive the scholarly consideration they warrant—a critical gap this essay begins to fill.
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A Siblings' Guide to Recovering Caregivers
[...]we even learned to smile and shake our heads over trips to the emergency room, following a fall on one of his walks, where Dad was greeted by name when he entered, and we were greeted with emergency room phone calls to the police to come interview us about possible abuse. [...]like John, she has also learned the power of writing her experiences down to share with others but uses narrative rather than poetry. [...]most importantly, because we have both found ways to heal from the trauma of unexpected caregiving, we are able to work together again to plan how to best care for other family members who have recently received diagnoses of dementia.
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