A collection of poetry and quotes about baseball-and about so much more. The diamond is the backdrop for Loren Broaddus's exploration of nostalgia, family, race, jazz, and the winding hallways of history. Joe DiMaggio is sometimes domestic, sometimes political-microscopic here, aerial there. While Broaddus's poems may start at home plate, he sends them flying in all directions: sometimes into left field, sometimes out of the park entirely.
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[There is the football scene / of two, and the Christmas / ice skating, but go deep / into Charlie Brown's longings TRIUMVIRATE]***
(@AndrewsMcMeel, 10 September 2019, 144 pages, ebook, ARC from (@AndrewsMcMeel via # NetGalley and voluntarily reviewed)
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I really wasn't sure to expect from this collection. I'm not into Baseball so didn't have very high expectations for the poems here. I wanted to give the poet a fair chance though which I why I decided to read it. I'm glad I did. Many of the poems here are about one of America's most beloved sports. However, the poems deal with much more as they examine American society over the past 100 years. The poems were well written and engaging. I was impressed how the poet was able to use Baseball as the backdrop to explore such a wide array of subjects.