American Sports Poems

Swenson, May; R.R. Knudson

ISBN 10: 0531057534 / ISBN 13: 9780531057537

Published by Orchard Books, New York, 1988

About this Item

226pp. Octavo [24cm]. 1/4 navy cloth over red boards, with title stamped in gilt on spine. Light bumping to foot of boards. Mild soiling to textblock edges. Dust jacket is a bit rubbed and toned. With contributions from over 100 notable names, including Shel Silverstein, Walt Whitman, Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Carver and Charles Bukowski. Selected, in part, by acclaimed Utah poet May Swenson. Seller Inventory # 65063

Bibliographic Details

Title: American Sports Poems

Publisher: Orchard Books, New York

Publication Date: 1988

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good +

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Edition: First edition.

About this title

Synopsis:

A collection of poems on sports, ranging from solo running, hunting, and fighting, to football and baseball from the spectator's point of view

Review:

Patrick Ewing Takes A Foul Shot by Diane Ackerman
Pumping Iron by Diane Ackerman
Point Guard by Arnold Adoff
Wrestling The Beast by Arnold Adoff
They All Must Fall by Muhammad Ali
Unsound Condition by Richard Armour
Led By The Hebrew School Rabbi by Judith Baumel
The Ball Poem by John Berryman
The Kid by Kevin Bezner
The Fish by Elizabeth Bishop
Hockey by Scott Blaine
Skate by Laurel Blossom
The Loser by Charles Bukowski
Hurdler by Grace Butcher
Motorcycle Racer Thinks Of Quitting by Grace Butcher
Young Wrestlers by Grace Butcher
Fish Story by Henry Carlile
The Catch by Raymond Carver
The Last Baseball Samurai by Thomas Willard Clark
Jackie Robinson by Lucille Clifton
High Stick by Billy Collins
To Kate, Skating Better Than Her Date by David Daiches
For The Death Of Vince Lombardi by James Dickey
In The Pocket by James Dickey
The Lifeguard by James Dickey
Babe & Lou by Franz Douskey
The Photograph by Barbara Drake
Caught by Gaston Dubois
Insanity by Gaston Dubois
Basketball: A Retrospective by Stephen Elliott Dunn
Clothespins by Stuart John Dybek
Pole Vaulter (1) by David Allan Evans
The Gymnasts by Irving Feldman
Baseball Canto by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Joan Benoit by Rina Ferrarelli
The Sleeper by Edward Field
Sonja Henie Sonnet by Edward Field
Interview With A Winner by Donald Finkle
Football by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Skaters by John Gould Fletcher
Catch by Robert Francis
His Running My Running by Robert Francis
The Standing Broad Jump by Richard Frost
The Rabbit-hunter by Robert Frost
Women's Tug Of War At Lough Arrow by Tess Gallagher
Song: Take Who Takes You by Fred Gardner
Uneven Parallel Bars by Patricia Gary
Prefontaine by Charles Ghigna
In My Meanest Daydream by Gary Gildner
Meeting My Best Friend From The Eighth Grade by Gary Gildner
Marvin Pickett by Mel Glenn
The Racer's Widow by Louise Gluck
Unitas by Edward Gold
Don Larsen's Perfect Game by Paul Goodman
Surfers At Santa Cruz by Paul Goodman
Casey's Daughter At The Bat by Al Graham
A Lesson From Golf by Edgar Albert Guest
Eight Oars And A Coxswain by Arthur Guiterman
Never Be As Fast As I Have Been by Robert Hahn
Couplet by Donald Hall
Makin' Jump Shots by Michael S. Harper
Enos Slaughter by Jim Lavella Havelin
Dedicated To F.w. by Ernest Hemingway
Tennis In The City by Frank Higgins
Instruction by Conrad Arthur Hilberry
Fast Break by Edward Hirsch
A History Of Golf - Sort Of by Thomas L. Hirsch
The Finish by Daniel Gerard Hoffman
Black Lady In An Afro Hiardo Cheers For Cassius by R. Ernest Holmes
Sonnet by Henry Howard
Out Fishing by Barbara Howes
Skating In Pleasant Hill, Ohio by Kathleen Ann Iddings
The Boxing Match by David Ignatow
Sacrifice Bunt by Lucky Jacobs
Say Goodbye To Big Daddy by Randall Jarrell
Salmon-fishing by Robinson Jeffers
Softball Dreams by Karen Kevorkian
Horseback by Carolyn Kizer
Wilt Chamberlain by R. R. Knudson
Genuine Poem, Founded ... Story City Iowa by Ted Kooser
400-meter Freestyle by Maxine W. Kumin
Remembering You by Maxine W. Kumin
Medals And Money: A Re-evaluation by Barbara Lamblin
Preparednedd by Felicia Lamport
Ski Song Of The U.s. Army's Tenth Mountain Division by W. T. Levitt
The Midnight Tennis Match by Thomas Lux
Yacht For Sale by Archibald Macleish
First Green Heron by Gary Francis Margolis
Football by Walt Mason
Listening To Baseball In The Car by Gail Mazur
Hazard's Optimism by William Meredith
The Seventh Round by James Ingram Merrill
The Need To Win by Thomas James Merton
Let's Go, Mets by Lillian Morrison
Nine Triads by Lillian Morrison
Sailing, Sailing by Lillian Morrison
The Sidewalk Racer, Or On The Skateboard by Lillian Morrison
Strategy For A Marathon by Marnie Mueller
The Skydivers by Joseph Colin Murphey
Billy Ray Smith by Ogden Nash
Birthday On The Beach by Ogden Nash
Watching Football On Tv by Howard Nemerov
Clean by Lance Newman
My Father Toured The South by Jeanette Nichols
Take Me Out To The Ball Game by Jack Norworth
It's Great When You Get In by Eugene O'neill
For Hoyt Wilhelm by Joel Oppenheimer
Skater In Blue by Jay Parini
To The Field Goal Kicker In A Slump by Linda Pastan
The Origin Of Baseball by Kenneth Patchen
The Volleyball Match by William (bill) Pearlman
Ice-fishing by Denise Pendleton
Morning Athletes by Marge Piercy
Karate by Stanley Plumly
Bull-dog! by Cole Porter
Babe Didrikson by Grantland Rice
The Springboard by Adrienne Cecile Rich
Billy Could Ride by James Whitcomb Riley
I've Never Written A Baseball Poem by Elisavietta Ritchie
International Sky-flying Championship Obersdorf by Elisavietta Ritchie
The Pike by Theodore Roethke
Heart by Jerry Ross
Babe Ruth by Alfred Damon Runyon
Skaters by Vern Rutsala
Hits And Runs by Carl Sandburg
Nothing But Net by Roy Martin Scheele
Exercise In Preparation For A Pindaric Ode To Carl Hubbell by Delmore Schwartz
The Nude Swim by Anne Sexton
The Bathers by Karl Shapiro
The Notre Dame Victory March by John Shea
Hunting by Jack Sheedy
Haiti: Skin Diving by Jane Shore
Fancy Dive by Shelby Silverstein
Hook by Floyd Skloot
Blues For Benny Kid Paret by Dave Smith
You've Got To Learn The White Man's Game by Mbembe Milton Smith
The Closing Of The Rodeo by William Jay Smith
World Champions by William Jay Smith
Polo Ponies Practicing by Wallace Stevens
Analysis Of Baseball by May Swenson
Bronco Busting, Event #1 by May Swenson
Chosing Craft by May Swenson
Watching The Jets Lose To Buffalo At Shea by May Swenson
Shadow Boxing by James Tate
Riding Lesson by Henry Splawn Taylor
Ex-basketball Player by John Updike
Idyll by John Updike
Anthem by Stephen Vincent
Nine Charms Against The Hunter by David Wagoner
The Song Of Snohomish by William S. Wallace
Swimming In The Pacific by Robert Penn Warren
Righ Where He Left Off by Craig Weeden
The Tennis by Elwyn Brooks White
The Runner by Walt Whitman
Stallion by Walt Whitman
Running by Richard Wilbur
Lanky Hank Farrow by Harold Vernon Witt
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