The Moosehead Anthology 11: Dingers: Contemporary Baseball Writing (The Moosehead Anthologies) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1897190158 ISBN 13: 9781897190159

Publisher: DC Books, 2008

Synopsis

Baseball and literature, both "high" and "low" have long sat side-by-side in the dugout. The Great Writer, Papa Hemingway watches the game and yearns to hit one more novelistic homerun, while the inarticulate player characterizes a sharp piece of fielding as "pure poetry." In Dingers, essayists, fiction writers, and poets describe baseball's combinations and forms, seeking to plumb its meaning as a game and maybe metaphor for Life's deeper truths. Teamed together to play literary ball are writers such as George Bowering, Robert Allen, Timothy Morris, Arjun Basu, Jason Camlot, Dave Bidini, etc. The epic game is dramatized in all its variety, from the major and minor leagues, down to Little Leagues, and pickup games in sandlots. Some cerebral wag high up in the bleachers once reflected baseball is more about losing than winning -- a good batter only hits thirty per cent of the time and only one team wins The World Series. In this it bears a resemblance to fine writing, which may explain its extraordinary appeal to the ink-stained class. Happily for the reader, the songs and stories of some of the most verbally eloquent and talented of baseball wannabe's can be found between these covers.

Dingers includes daring and often thrilling new writing from some of the 21st century's best prose and poetry writers, such as: Robert Allen, George Bowering, Paul Beer, James Crosbie, Anastasia Jones, David Tabakow, Andy Brown, Ryan Arnold, Arjun Basu, Timothy Morris, Jason Camlot, Alessandro Porco, Mary Milgram, Ian McGillis, Nata Belza, Kevin Connolly, Taylor Brown-Evans, Matt Donovan, Dave Bidini, Greg Santos, and Steven Hayward.

About this title

About the Author

David McGimpsey was born and raised in Montreal. He has a PhD in English Literature and is the author of the award-winning study Imagining Baseball: America's Pastime and Popular Culture. His travel writings frequently appear in the Globe and Mail and he writes the 'Sandwich of the Month' column for EnRoute magazine. He teaches at Concordia University.

About this edition

• Publisher: DC Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1897190158
• ISBN 13: 9781897190159
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 166
• Editor: McGimpsey David