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Fast Break to Line Break: Poets on the Art of Basketball

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If baseball is the sport of nostalgic prose, basketball's movement, myths, and culture are truly at home in verse. In this extraordinary collection of essays, poets meditate on what basketball means to them: how it has changed their perspective on the craft of poetry; how it informs their sense of language, the body, and human connectedness; how their love of the sport made a difference in the creation of their poems and in the lives they live beyond the margins. Walt Whitman saw the origins of poetry as communal, oral myth making. The same could be said of basketball, which is the beating heart of so many neighborhoods and communities in this country and around the world. On the court and on the page, this 'poetry in motion' can be a force of change and inspiration, leaving devoted fans wonderstruck.

Table of Contents:
The Game PREGAME Basketball, Poetry, and All Things Beautiful / Todd Davis and J. D. Scrimgeour FIRST QUARTER Hidden Talents Fail to Materialize / Jim Daniels Basketball and Poetry: The Two Richies / Stephen Dunn Two Things You Need Balls to Do: A Miscellany from a Former Professional Basketball Player Turned Poet / Natalie Diaz The Simple Rhymes of Defense / Gary Fincke Basketball and Poetry: Strange Bedfellows / Margaret Gibson and David McKain Basketball and the Immigrant Faith / Patrick Rosal SECOND QUARTER Spinning in My Hands / Mary Linton Against All Odds / Linda Nemec Foster The Ball Goes in Clean / Todd Davis Hard / Peter Sears In Praise of Bad Boys and the Evolutionary Leap / Therese Becker Why I Wrote the “Magic” Johnson Poem / Quincy Troupe HALFTIME The Art of the Cheer / Debra Marquart THIRD QUARTER Fast Break / William Heyen Tipping Off / Lauren (Jentz) Jensen Off the Rim / Adrian Matejka Courting Risk: Thoughts on Basketball and Poetry / Patricia Clark Basketball, Failure, and Amateur Pleasure / Jeff Gundy My Two Obsessions: Basketball and Poetry / Marian Haddad FOURTH QUARTER “More Beautiful Than Words Can Tell”: A Poet’s Education in Southern Basketball / Bobby C. Rogers Blessed / Ross Gay It Was Easier to Say, “I’m a Basketball Player” Than It Is to Say, “I’m a Poet” / Jack Ridl Reading Sebastian Matthews / James McKean Going Exactly Where We Want to Go / Marjorie Maddox Squeak from Shoes / Richard Newman OVERTIME Announcing My Retirement / J. D. Scrimgeour Team Roster Acknowledgments

About the Author :
Todd Davis is the author of four books of poetry, most recently The Least of These, and his poems have appeared in such journals and magazines as Poetry Daily, North American Review, The Gettysburg Review, Shenandoah, Arts & Letters, and The Iowa Review.

Review :
Fast Break to Line Break is a vibrant reminder that we human beings take nothing quite so seriously as we do our games. What joy to hear these remarkable writers speak so passionately about a metal rim, an arcing ball, and the countless lessons learned on and off the court. Nothing but net, here. —Dinty W. Moore, author of Between Panic Desire The resplendent prose skirmishing in Fast Break to Line Break wrests verse from the mitts of baseball’s ham-handed mutts and delivers poetry to another genre—basketball’s articulated fingertips where the spin is spun into the english on the English. —Michael Martone, author of Four for a Quarter


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781611860351
  • Publisher: Michigan State University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Michigan State University Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 234
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Weight: 286 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1611860350
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Poets on the Art of Basketball
  • Width: 152 mm


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