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.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket_poetry

I suppose Vitai Limpada must get a mention; it leaves me a bit cold,
something about not going to public school, I suppose.

Anyone read Victoria Coverdale's Come Shane?
Roger

On 3/4/07, TheOldMole <[log in to unmask]> wrote> Probably the best thing
I ever saw on poetry and baseball was Mikhail
> Horowitz's "Big League Poets," published by City Lights, never reprinted,
> now a collector's item.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Weiss" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2007 11:12 PM
> Subject: Re: Baseball and Policy Document for Poetryetc: Please Comment
>
>
> > 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
> >>> >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
> >>[sharpsand.net]
> >
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