Even I've heard of Wayne Gretzsky. But Bad Joe Hall (1882-1919)?
Black Country coal-pits
to
flint-cut tundra
a frozen pond, a puck, two sticks
steel blades
dubbin greased on leather
soften, flex
stone eases life-like
harden, hard, harder
Bad Joe Hall
Heads down and less this year
friends melt with Spring offensives
slap the ice and scurf
bone and tendon, tear and crack
body check and bounce
no tears for Bad Joe Hall
The pride of the Snowy North
a collector's card in a boy's fist
a fable for the pundit and the fan
struck down by General Fever
Bad Joe Hall
Roger
On 3/6/07, TheOldMole <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Before Gretzky, many considered Bobby Orr the greatest hockey player of all
> time.
>
> The only problem with sculling is -- there was sculling in neither novel,
> but sex surgery in both of them.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "MC Ward" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 3:19 PM
> Subject: Re: Ice Hockey and Policy Document for Poetryetc: Please Comment
> (was Re: Baseball and Policy Document for Poetryetc: Please Comment)
>
>
> > Okay, I'll bite. Who is Bobby Orr?
> >
> >
> >
> > --- TheOldMole <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >> "Nick and Jake" is a novel of the 50s, replete with
> >> obscure allusions that
> >> no one will get. And the character in question is a
> >> Scandinavian, so he
> >> compares himself to Stein Ericksen, who was a great
> >> Norwegian Alpine skiier
> >> of that era.
> >>
> >> Actually, I cannibalized this gag from an earlier
> >> unpublished novel, in
> >> which the character wants to be known as the Bobby
> >> Orr of sex surgery.
> >>
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "MC Ward" <[log in to unmask]>
> >> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> >> Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 2:21 PM
> >> Subject: Re: Ice Hockey and Policy Document for
> >> Poetryetc: Please Comment
> >> (was Re: Baseball and Policy Document for Poetryetc:
> >> Please Comment)
> >>
> >>
> >> > Is that a compliment? I'd vote for Cher (as a
> >> patient,
> >> > not a surgeon) if I had my druthers.
> >> >
> >> > I hate to admit it, but I don't know who Stein
> >> > Eriicksen is.
> >> >
> >> > As for home town celebrations, you should have
> >> seen
> >> > Littleton, NH, when Rich Gale came home after that
> >> > night club fire when he proved himself a hero. (He
> >> was
> >> > a friend of my brother's.)
> >> >
> >> > C
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > -- TheOldMole <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> In "Nick and Jake," my novel currently making the
> >> >> rounds, I have a character
> >> >> who is known as "the Stein Ericksen of sex
> >> surgery."
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> >> From: "MC Ward" <[log in to unmask]>
> >> >> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> >> >> Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 8:45 AM
> >> >> Subject: Re: Ice Hockey and Policy Document for
> >> >> Poetryetc: Please Comment
> >> >> (was Re: Baseball and Policy Document for
> >> Poetryetc:
> >> >> Please Comment)
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> >I used to be known as "the Wayne Gretsky of
> >> >> > copyediting." Now my daughter goes to games
> >> here
> >> >> in
> >> >> > Pittsburgh exclusively for (the world's best)
> >> >> nachos
> >> >> > and cotton candy--the generation gap....
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Candice
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> > --- Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
> >> >> wrote:
> >> >> >
> >> >> >> Well, of course, Roger, here in the Great
> >> White
> >> >> >> North we love hockey
> >> >> >> (indeed, with the departure of the hero of
> >> 'our'
> >> >> >> team this past week,
> >> >> >> the papers were filled with that front page
> >> story
> >> >> >> for days!
> >> >> >> I was certainly in to it back in the days of
> >> >> >> Gretsky, et. al., but the
> >> >> >> game itself is not so interesting now, for one
> >> >> who
> >> >> >> like me likes the
> >> >> >> speed rather than the beatings.... Indeed, at
> >> >> least
> >> >> >> at the Olympic
> >> >> >> level, women's hockey seems much the more
> >> >> >> interesting game....
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> And I admit I dont play anything, although I
> >> bike
> >> >> a
> >> >> >> lot....
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> Doug
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> On 4-Mar-07, at 8:26 AM, Roger Day wrote:
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> > Baseball and NFL are like foreign languages
> >> to
> >> >> me
> >> >> >> ... now Ice Hockey,
> >> >> >> > that's more like it. Such a simple, violent
> >> and
> >> >> >> fast game. I used to
> >> >> >> > follow this years ago when I was around the
> >> >> West
> >> >> >> Coast of North
> >> >> >> > America. I liked the Canadian teams - the
> >> >> >> Canadiens, the Mapleleafs,
> >> >> >> > the Canucks, the Oilers. At the Olympics, it
> >> >> used
> >> >> >> to be the Canadians
> >> >> >> > or the Czechs. Any ice hockey poetry out
> >> there?
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> > As for cricket umm. That too rates up there
> >> >> with
> >> >> >> NFL for an
> >> >> >> > incomprehensible dialect. Still Roy Harper
> >> has
> >> >> >> produced a few good
> >> >> >> > words, and the calypsos are always a lot
> >> more
> >> >> fun
> >> >> >> than the English
> >> >> >> > verses.
> >> >> >> 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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