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When your wife has Tommy John surgery : and other baseball stories : poems / by E. Ethelbert Miller.
Van Pelt Library PS3563.I3768 W46 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miller, E. Ethelbert, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Baseball--Poetry.
- Baseball.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 56 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, CT : City Point Press, [2021]
- ©2021
- Summary:
- "Much-honored Washington, D.C. poet activist E. Ethelbert Miller delights and surprises us with his deft imaginings and portraits. Ethelbert's poems play out in baseball rhythm and express the joy of living, despite the bitter challenges in today's world. These poems define our time and allow us to see ourselves as human through the lens of baseball, family and music. When Your Wife Has Tommy John Surgery and Other Baseball Stories is Miller's second book of baseball poems. Here he touches new bases. There are poems about Marcel Duchamp and Ornette Coleman as well as Whitey Ford and Don Larsen. Miller's poems move the outdoor game indoors where there are moments of disappointment and despair. Baseball can be a blues game. Tommy John surgery is a way of holding onto hope. Many of these poems were written during the Covid pandemic. They beckon fans back to the ballpark. They remind us to enjoy a game that is precious and maybe even essential to our wellness. Coming after If God Invented Baseball, Miller seems to emerge from a literary dugout after a brief rain delay, ready to celebrate the American pastime again"-- Publisher's website.
- Contents:
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- Shortstop
- Girl in a Ball Park with Her Back to the Stands
- Roberto
- Whitey Ford
- Third Base
- The Batting Order
- The Night Before September 29, 1954
- May 28, 1957
- Howard University, October 1969
- Ornette
- Kind of Blue
- The Scout
- Manager Descending Down the Batting Order
- The Rundown
- Picasso
- Hamiltonian Artists
- The World Series
- Don Larsen for a Day
- In a Sentimental Mood
- The Called Third Strike
- The Unexpected
- When Your Wife Has Tommy John Surgery
- The Designated Hitter
- Free Agent
- Domestic Violence
- In Between Innings
- For the Love of the Game
- Pitching Is No Way to Treat a Muse
- The No-Hitter
- The Blown Save
- Mudcat
- The Negro League
- The Third Base Coach
- Lost in the Sun
- Stolen Secrets from the Ground Crew
- The Cardboard Season of 2020
- True Confessions of a Baseball
- The Bean Ball
- Conversation with My Body
- A Rookie During the Season of Coronavirus
- After the Swinging Sonnet Is Sung
- Tommy John Knocks on the Bedroom Door
- Baseball's Trinity
- The Closer
- Just Let Us Play
- Extra Innings
- When the Games Return.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 194795136X
- 9781947951365
- OCLC:
- 1236260281
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