Comments on: “Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing.” http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/10/writing-is-exciting-and-baseball-is-like-writing/ A blog from the Poetry Foundation where contemporary poets debate classic and contemporary poetry from America and around the world. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:13:40 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jilly http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/10/writing-is-exciting-and-baseball-is-like-writing/#comment-5937 Jilly Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:02:25 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=1125#comment-5937 Donald Hall wrote a book with Dock Elllis: In the Country of Baseball. Dock Ellis is dying of liver problems. :( 2 good baseball lit mags: <a href="http://www.efqreview.com/" rel="nofollow">Elysian Fields Quarterly</a> and <a href="http://www.angelfire.com/oh5/spitball/" rel="nofollow">Spitball</a> Donald Hall wrote a book with Dock Elllis: In the Country of Baseball. Dock Ellis is dying of liver problems. :(
2 good baseball lit mags: Elysian Fields Quarterly and Spitball

]]> By: Jilly http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/10/writing-is-exciting-and-baseball-is-like-writing/#comment-5936 Jilly Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:08:45 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=1125#comment-5936 Miguel Batista has written a book of poems. That was some good baseball in this past World Series! Miguel Batista has written a book of poems.
That was some good baseball in this past World Series!

]]> By: Dunstan http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/10/writing-is-exciting-and-baseball-is-like-writing/#comment-5935 Dunstan Sun, 02 Nov 2008 19:50:02 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=1125#comment-5935 Perez reminds me of Eric Cantona, the French footballer who famously played for Manchester United in the 1990's. He was a sportsman not afraid to expose his literary interests and he went on to develop a fairly successful career as an actor. In one famous interview he described the way the british press followed his every movement thus, "When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea". Rather less impressively he is now the manager of the French Beach Football Team. Football poem - <a href="http://dunstancarter.wordpress.com/index.php?s=rush+goalies" rel="nofollow">http://dunstancarter.wordpress.com/index.php?s=rush+goalies</a> Perez reminds me of Eric Cantona, the French footballer who famously played for Manchester United in the 1990’s. He was a sportsman not afraid to expose his literary interests and he went on to develop a fairly successful career as an actor. In one famous interview he described the way the british press followed his every movement thus, “When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea”. Rather less impressively he is now the manager of the French Beach Football Team.
Football poem – http://dunstancarter.wordpress.com/index.php?s=rush+goalies

]]> By: Ryan http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/10/writing-is-exciting-and-baseball-is-like-writing/#comment-5934 Ryan Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:14:40 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=1125#comment-5934 Bill Lee didn't throw the no-hitter on acid, Doc Ellis did. Allegedly. R Bill Lee didn’t throw the no-hitter on acid, Doc Ellis did. Allegedly.
R

]]> By: Joe Safdie http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/10/writing-is-exciting-and-baseball-is-like-writing/#comment-5933 Joe Safdie Thu, 30 Oct 2008 05:26:02 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=1125#comment-5933 I found occasion to comment on this year’s World Series (and a few other things, including the upcoming election, Ron’s blog, and flarf) <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/7521650/World-Series-2008" rel="nofollow">here</a>, <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/7539474/World-Series-2008-2" rel="nofollow">here</a>, and <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/7626373/World-Series-2008-3here" rel="nofollow">here</a>.<br /><br />I kinda wish the Rays had come back – as will be apparent on a first read – but I’m glad for Pedro Feliz, who played so long for “my” team, the San Francisco Giants. So . . . which poems of Ashbery and Creeley do you think Perez read? I found occasion to comment on this year’s World Series (and a few other things, including the upcoming election, Ron’s blog, and flarf) here, here, and here.

I kinda wish the Rays had come back – as will be apparent on a first read – but I’m glad for Pedro Feliz, who played so long for “my” team, the San Francisco Giants. So . . . which poems of Ashbery and Creeley do you think Perez read?

]]> By: Lavinia Greenlaw http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/10/writing-is-exciting-and-baseball-is-like-writing/#comment-5932 Lavinia Greenlaw Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:39:45 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=1125#comment-5932 An out poetry-reading baseball player? In this country, a football player has to be careful even about what newspaper he reads. Graham Le Saux, who played for Chelsea in the 80s and 90s, and was at one point English football's most expensive defender, turned up for his first day at the club in a state of wondrous innocence: "The only people I knew in London were students*, so I turned up at training with my student look: jeans rolled up, Pringle socks and my rucksack with The Guardian in it." He also liked antiques and went to art galleries but it was The Guardian that led to his being virulently mocked and ostracised. (See<a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/article2410281.ece" rel="nofollow">"David Beckham called me a poof."</a>) Le Saux published his autobiography last year. It seems likely that he has read the odd poem, more likely that he's written one. *If someone here calls you a "student", they are probably trying to insult you, especially if the word is elaborated into "student-type". An out poetry-reading baseball player? In this country, a football player has to be careful even about what newspaper he reads. Graham Le Saux, who played for Chelsea in the 80s and 90s, and was at one point English football’s most expensive defender, turned up for his first day at the club in a state of wondrous innocence: “The only people I knew in London were students*, so I turned up at training with my student look: jeans rolled up, Pringle socks and my rucksack with The Guardian in it.” He also liked antiques and went to art galleries but it was The Guardian that led to his being virulently mocked and ostracised. (See“David Beckham called me a poof.”) Le Saux published his autobiography last year. It seems likely that he has read the odd poem, more likely that he’s written one.
*If someone here calls you a “student”, they are probably trying to insult you, especially if the word is elaborated into “student-type”.

]]> By: Joshua Marie Wilkinson http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/10/writing-is-exciting-and-baseball-is-like-writing/#comment-5931 Joshua Marie Wilkinson Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:33:17 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=1125#comment-5931 I like this post, Travis. Paul Fattaruso has a great poem featuring six or seven baseball players with wonderful-sounding names. Maybe Paul will post it for us? He lives in Philly now, but I think Perez's love for Ashbery and Creeley has introduced a conflict as to who to root for. go cubs? jmw I like this post, Travis. Paul Fattaruso has a great poem featuring six or seven baseball players with wonderful-sounding names. Maybe Paul will post it for us? He lives in Philly now, but I think Perez’s love for Ashbery and Creeley has introduced a conflict as to who to root for.
go cubs?
jmw

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