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
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>
>There was no sign of survivors, and
>the poetry reading went on.
>
> Tony Perniciaro
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