Why don't you post them? Unless you'd get in trouble with the author.
At 09:08 PM 3/3/2007, you wrote:
>Pretty good anthology of baseball
>poems<http://www.amazon.com/Line-Drives-Contemporary-Baseball-Writing/dp/0809324407/ref=sr_1_1/002-2927097-7436064?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1172973698&sr=1-1>here.
>And boxing
>poems
>here<http://www.amazon.com/Perfect-Their-Art-Poems-Boxing/dp/0809325314/ref=sr_1_1/002-2927097-7436064?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1172973959&sr=1-1>.
>Full disclosure: I have a poem in each anthology.
>
>jd
>
>On 3/3/07, joe green <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>Some of the best poems about baseball I have read are by Jilly Dybka...you
>>can google her and find her site. And my best poem -- the Diamond at the
>>End of Time -- is about baseball and God and Shakespeare and the Lone
>>Ranger. You can listen to it here
>>
>>http://thejeunessedoree.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=68365
>>
>>Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote: Among the NBlack Mountain
>>bunch, Fee Dawson and Joel Oppenheimer
>>wrote about baseball, and it receives a few mentions in Olson (if I
>>remember right). And there's Kenneth Koch's Ko: A Season on Earth,
>>which gets some of its comic zest from the hero's being a Japanese
>>Major League player (whio could imagine such a thing?). And of course
>>Spicer's poems forthe Saint Loiuis Sporting News (I think it was) in
>>A Book of Magazine Verse. There are probably hundreds of others.
>>
>>Surprisingly, I don't think I've read a single Cuban poem about
>>baseball, though the passion for the game there exceeds sex or
>>religion. I'll ask my sources.
>>
>>Mark
>>
>>
>>At 01:17 PM 3/3/2007, you wrote:
>> >Tad, do you know George Bowerings work? He's a Canadian poet who
>> >also manages to get a baseball scene into all his novels, & once
>> >wrote 'Baseball: a poem in nine parts,' which Coach House Press
>> >designed in the shape of a pennant. Also in his great long poem,
>> >Kerrisdale Elegies, he changes Rilke's acrobats to a baseball team.
>> >
>> >Doug
>> >
>> >
>> >On 3-Mar-07, at 10:31 AM, TheOldMole wrote:
>> >
>> >>Pulling this back to poetry, I generally manage to find room for a
>> >>baseball scene in all of my novels, but I do have one poem about
>> >>Jackie Robinson, which I think I no longer like enough to post, and
>> >>one about my other Mecca in those years (although it does mention
>> >>Ebbets Field).
>> >Douglas Barbour
>> >11655 - 72 Avenue NW
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>> >
>> >Latest book: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
>> >http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
>> >
>> >
>> >There was no sign of survivors, and
>> >the poetry reading went on.
>> >
>> > Tony Perniciaro
>>
>>
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