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This Sporting Life: Contemporary American Poems about Sports and Games

Emilie Buchwald

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This lively collection offers up the work of seventy-six of America's best poets and their contemplations on sports - from board games to bronc riding, baseball to boxing - and on the sport of life. The nine sections of the book cover such topics as Life Is Water ; Climbing the Air ; On Incandescent Feet ; Playing the Game ; and This Sporting Life . Entwined throughout the various themes is the universal idea that life is the ultimate sport in the testing of our bodies and in the celebration of the body's language.

Language: English

Pages: 176

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Milkweed Editions

Release: August 10, 1998

ISBN: 1571314040

ISBN 13: 9781571314048

This Sporting Life: Contemporary American Poems about Sports and Games

Emilie Buchwald

1.5/5 ( ratings)

This lively collection offers up the work of seventy-six of America's best poets and their contemplations on sports - from board games to bronc riding, baseball to boxing - and on the sport of life. The nine sections of the book cover such topics as Life Is Water ; Climbing the Air ; On Incandescent Feet ; Playing the Game ; and This Sporting Life . Entwined throughout the various themes is the universal idea that life is the ultimate sport in the testing of our bodies and in the celebration of the body's language.

Language: English

Pages: 176

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Milkweed Editions

Release: August 10, 1998

ISBN: 1571314040

ISBN 13: 9781571314048

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