This Sporting Life: Contemporary American Poems About Sports and Games - Softcover

Buchwald, Emilie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 091594314X ISBN 13: 9780915943142

Publisher: Milkweed Editions, 1987

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After A Game Of Squash by Sam Albert
Archery Instructor by Richard Aldridge
Louisville Feared In Mideast by Steven Bryan Bieler
The Hockey Poem by Robert Bly
Contest by Susan Bright
On Cedar Lake, 1957 by Ruth F. Brin
Handicapped Children Swimming by Michael Dennis Browne
Passage Rite by John Caddy
A World War Ii Premium From Battle Creek by John Caddy
Soring by Kent Cartwright
Elk Camp by Raymond Carver
My Boat by Raymond Carver
Photograph Of My Father In His Twenty-second Year by Raymond Carver
After Reading The Great American Marble Book by Michael Cleary
Chinese Checkers by Arleen Cohen
The Yo-yo King by Syma Cheris Cohn
Deliverance by Barbara Crooker
Skating After School by Barbara Crooker
Mystery Baseball by Philip Dacey
Skating by Philip Dacey
Pasttime by Emilio De Grazia
Fishing The Dream by Michael Delp
Snorkeling In The Caribbean by Alixa Doom
Boxing Towards My Birth by Jack Driscoll
Touch Football by Jack Driscoll
Jacklight by Louise Erdrich
The Strange People by Louise Erdrich
The Bull Rider's Advice by David Allan Evans
Bus Depot Reunion by David Allan Evans
Pole Vaulter (1) by David Allan Evans
Watching Tackles In Slow Motion by David Allan Evans
Miss Summerfest by Susan Firer
A Night Game In Menomonie Park by Susan Firer
From The Xxiii Summer Olympics, The Poet As Reporter by Joseph C. Fischer
Playing Solitaire by Steven Fortney
The Base Stealer by Robert Francis
Skier by Robert Francis
Swimmer by Robert Francis
Two Wrestlers by Robert Francis
New World In The Morning by Norman German
Divers by Charles Ghigna
A Fighter Learns Of Hands by Charles Ghigna
First Practice by Gary Gildner
In My Meanest Daydream by Gary Gildner
In The Ocean by Patricia Goedicke
Playing The Game by Barbara Goldowsky
Necessity Is The Mother Of The Bullet by Patrick Worth Gray
Couplet by Donald Hall
Merle Bascom's .22 by Donald Hall
Crying Uncle by Tom Hansen
The Roan Hunter by Jana Harris
Mantle by William Heyen
I Try To Turn In My Jock by David Hilton
Execution by Edward Hirsch
Fast Break by Edward Hirsch
Letter To Mantsch From Havre by Richard Hugo
Missoula Softball Tournament by Richard Hugo
A Jogging Injury by Fleda Brown Jackson
Americans Playing Slow-pitch Softball At An Airbase ... by Halvard Johnson
The Extra-inning Ballgame by Halvard Johnson
Spiel by Halvard Johnson
Bad Sport by Beth Kalikoff
On The Tennis Court At Night by Galway Kinnell
A Jockey by Ronald Boyd Koertge
Basketball Season Begins by Norbert Krapf
400-meter Freestyle by Maxine W. Kumin
Prothalamion by Maxine W. Kumin
To Swim, To Believe (centre College, Danville, Kentucky) by Maxine W. Kumin
First Love by Carl Lindner
When I Got It Right by Carl Lindner
Hunting For Grouse by Roseann Lloyd
Song Of The Fisherman's Lover by Roseann Lloyd
The Midnight Tennis Match by Thomas Lux
Swimming by Janice M. Lynch
Fly Ball by Carol Masters
Catch by Ethna Mckiernan
Death Of The Track Star by William Joseph Meissner
The Kicker's Last Steps by William Joseph Meissner
The Reunion: Swimming by William Joseph Meissner
Fishing by Solveig Nilsen
Sex Without Love by Sharon Olds
Playing Time by Theresa Pappas
Into The Wind by Barbara J. Petoskey
Hunting Season by Mykie Silz Reidy
Night Runner's Prayer by Mykie Silz Reidy
On The Tomb Of Kalamachius, The Jogger by Elliot Richman
On Weathering Gales by Elisavietta Ritchie
Scrut Gets Marty Crowe For Social Studies by George (1943-) Roberts
Players by Ruth Roston
Basket Catch by Bart Schneider
Argument One: The Lady Shews How She Is Forsaken by Judith Johnson Sherwin
Lines by Barbara Smith
Ulysses by Claude Clayton Smith
The Skibomber by Martin Steingesser
Parallel Bars by Jeffrey Stockwell
The Announcer by Austin Straus
The Juggler by Austin Straus
The Jump Shooter by Dennis Trudell
Out On The Course by William J. Vernon
Last Game by Cary Waterman
High Jumper by Don Welch
Still Hunting by Don Welch
To Bear Bryant, Somewhere On That Taller Tower by Don Welch
Autumn Begins In Martins Ferry, Ohio by James Wright
Little Girl Blue by Yvonne [pseud.]
Dear Mom by Paul Zarzyski
Sailing by Al Zolynas
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Edition details

• Publisher: Milkweed Editions
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 091594314X
• ISBN 13: 9780915943142
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 173