Description |
xix, 250 pages ; 21 cm |
Note |
Includes indexes. |
Contents |
Pumping iron / Diane Ackerman -- Event / Kim Addonizio -- Late round / Kim Addonizio -- Narrative: Ali / Elizabeth Alexander -- Penance / Sherman Alexi -- Why we play basektball / Sherman Alexie -- Jogger on Riverside Drive, 5:00 a.m. / Agha Shahid Ali -- To satch / Sam Allen -- Locker room etiquette / Craig Arnold -- A dream of the ring: the great Jack Johnson / George Barlow -- Called up: tinker to evers to chance / Dorothy Barresi -- Lifting / Dorothy Barresi -- Slow / Marvin Bell -- What they do to you in distant places / Marvin Bell -- Fish / Elizabeth Bishop -- Water & light / Noah Blaustein -- Rodeo Tangent / Kendra Borgmann -- Playing basketball with the Viet Cong / Kevin Bowen -- Dove at sundown / Catherine Bowman -- My Knicks are going to beat your Spurs-NBA souvenir bracelet 1999 for my long distance love / Catherine Bowman -- Fishing in Winter / Ralph Burns -- Memory / Ralph Burns -- Russ Joy Little League / Douglas Carlson -- Capper Kaplinski at the North Side Cue Club / Hayden Carruth -- Catch / Raymond Carver -- Moorer denies Holyfield in twelve / Olena Kalytiak Davis -- Fishing the dream / Mike Delp -- For the death of Vince Lombardi / James Dickey -- Death of the race car driver / Norman Dubie -- Competition / Stephen Dunn -- Criminal / Stephen Dunn -- Day and night handball -- Jack Johnson does the Eagle Rock / Cornelius Eady -- Bullhead / John Engels -- Man who beat Hemingway / Martin Espada -- Pole vaulter / David Allan Evans -- Song of racquetball / David Allan Evans -- Body and soul / B.H. Fairchild -- Old men playing basketball / B.H. Fairchild -- Baseball canto / Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- Class A, Salem, the Rookie League / Gary Fincke -- Pitcher / Robert Francis -- Rock climbers / Robert Francis -- Two wrestlers / Robert Franis -- Custom / Carol Frost -- To kill a deer / Carol Frost -- Knot Hole Gang / Brendan Galvin -- Running / Brendan Galvin -- Shadow-casting / James Galvin -- 4th base / Gary Gildner -- Racer's widow / Louise Gluck -- Line drive caught by the grace of God / Linda Gregerson -- Skateboard / Thom Gunn -- Fifth inning / Donald Hall -- Eighth inning / Donald Hall -- Allegiance / Forrest Hamer -- Archives / Michael S. Harper -- Homage to the Brown Bomber / Michael S. Harper -- Makin' jump shots / Michael S. Harper -- Hitting golfballs off the bluff / Jeffrey Harrison -- Pool is a Godless sport / James Haug -- Diver / Robert Hayden -- To the man saying "Come on Seis" at Hollywood Park / David Hayward -- Mantle / William Heyen -- Stadium / William Heyen -- Tennis in the city / Frank Higgins -- Y / Brenda Hillman -- I try to turn in my jock / David Hilton -- Fast break / Edward Hirsch -- How to play night baseball / Jonathan Holden -- A poem for Ed "Whitey" Ford / Jonathan Holden -- Baseball / Paul Hoover -- From Altitude, the Diamonds / Richard Hugo -- Letter to Mantsch from Havre / Richard Hugo -- Missoula Softball Tournament / Richard Hugo -- Boxing match / David Ignatow -- Ground swell / Mark Jarman -- Say goodbye to Big Daddy / Randall Jarrell -- Basketball / Louis Jenkins -- Football / Louis Jenkins -- Angling, a day / Galway Kinnell -- On the tennis court at night / Galway Kinnell -- Horseback / Carolyn Kizer -- Winter ball / August Kleinzahler -- Slam, dunk, and hook / Yusef Komunyakaa -- 400-meter Freestyle / Maxine Kumin -- To swim, to belive / Maxine Kumin -- Free throw / Mark Kraushaar -- Advantages of being a world class athlete / Tony Lacavaro -- Halftime / Adam Lefevre -- Right cross / Philip Levine -- At the house of ghosts / Adrian Louis -- Midnight tennis match / Thomas Lux -- Cheap seats, the Cincinnati Gardens, Professional Basketball, 1959 / William Matthews -- Foul shots: a clinic / William Matthews -- In memory of the Utah Stars / William Matthews -- Good "D" / James McKean -- A boy juggling a soccer ball / Christopher Merrill -- Diver / Christopher Merrill -- Baseball and writing / Marianne Moore -- When for weeks the sea is flat / Rick Noguchi -- We still have basketball, Sara / Lisa Olstein -- Storm surf / Greg Pape -- Baseball / Linda Pastan -- Morning athletes / Marge Piercy -- Karate / Stanley Plumly -- Nothing but bad news / Jennifer Richter -- Curlers at dusk / David Roderick -- Pike / Theodore Roethke -- Sunday skaters / Mary Jo Salter -- Hits and runs / Carl Sandburg -- Hook / Floyd Skloot -- Blues for Benny Kid Paret / Dave Smith -- Softball at Julia Tutwiler Prison / R.T. Smith -- Chin Music / Alan Soldofsky -- Black hair / Gary Soto -- My grandfather's cap / David St. John -- Run before dawn -- William Stafford -- Schssssssss / Martin Steingesser -- Swinging on the first pitch / Dabney Stuart -- Lousy in Center Field / James Tate -- Shadowboxing / James Tate -- Forty-one seconds on a Sunday in June, in Salt Lake City, Utah / Quincy Troupe -- Poem for my father; for Quincy Trouppe, Sr. / Quincy Troupe -- Jump shooter / Dennis Trudell -- Pitching coups / Ron Wellburn -- Running / Richard Wilbur -- At the ball game / William Carols Williams -- Autumn begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio / James Wright. |
Summary |
A collection of poems by American authors about sports. |
Subject |
Sports -- Poetry.
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American poetry.
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Added Author |
Blaustein, Noah, 1969-
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Other Form: |
Online version: Motion. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2001 (OCoLC)606541529 |
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Online version: Motion. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2001 (OCoLC)607893690 |
ISBN |
0877457549 alkaline paper |
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9780877457541 alkaline paper |
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0877457557 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780877457558 paperback alkaline paper |
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