Fast Break to Line Break

Poets on the Art of Basketball

Buch | Softcover

234 Seiten

2012
Michigan State University Press (Verlag)
978-1-61186-035-1 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Verlagsort	East Lansing, MI
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 226 mm
Gewicht	386 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Anthologien
	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Sport ► Ballsport ► Basketball
ISBN-10	1-61186-035-0 / 1611860350
ISBN-13	978-1-61186-035-1 / 9781611860351
Zustand	Neuware