Yes, here's a poem of mine that combines literature and baseball.
Literary Baseball
Who’s at bat? Why it looks like Old Bill Yeats.
Pope’s on the Mound. The pitch is wide and low.
Yeat’s spits. The pitch. A hit. Get it Johnny Keats!
A long legged fly. Keats is too damn slow.
He coughs. He falls! Look it’s Wallace Stevens!
Way back! He’ll have to catch it off the wall.
Shelley scores! By God the score is even!
Yeats stops at third. A fact which doth appall
Bobby Frost. Who strides quickly to the mound.
Pope’s out. Pound’s in. No it’s Christy Marlowe!
(The Bard’s retired.) But then there is a sound
As the crowd cries out in rage and sorrow,
Makes for their cars. The Greeks would call it Fate.
What can be done when Homer’s at the plate?
Joseph Duemer <[log in to unmask]> wrote: Pretty good anthology of baseball
poemshere.
And boxing
poems here.
Full disclosure: I have a poem in each anthology.
jd
On 3/3/07, joe green 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 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
> >Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9
> >(780) 436 3320
> >http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
> >
> >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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Joseph Duemer
Professor of Humanities
Clarkson University
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