LEADER 03733nam 2200577Ia 450 001 9910463506803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-62895-073-0 010 $a1-60917-316-3 035 $a(CKB)3170000000046188 035 $a(EBL)1810030 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000597384 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11334465 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000597384 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10578119 035 $a(PQKB)11441342 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3338240 035 $a(OCoLC)787846381 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse18512 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3338240 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10539306 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000046188 100 $a20110609d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aFast break to line break$b[electronic resource] $epoets on the art of basketball /$fedited by Todd Davis 210 $aEast Lansing $cMichigan State University Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (236 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-61186-035-0 327 $aThe Game; Pregame; Basketball, Poetry, and All Things Beautiful - Todd Davis and J. D. Scrimgeour; First Quarter; Hidden Talents Fail to Materialize - Jim Daniels; Basketball and Poetry: The Two Richies - Stephen Dunn; Two Things You Need Balls to Do: A Miscellany from a Former Professional Basketball Player Turned Poet - Natalie Diaz; The Simple Rhymes of Defense - Gary Fincke; Basketball and Poetry: Strange Bedfellows - Margaret Gibson and David McKain; Basketball and the Immigrant Faith - Patrick Rosal; Secound Quarter; Spinning in My Hands - Mary Linton 327 $aAgainst All Odds - Linda Nemec FosterThe Ball Goes in Clean - Todd Davis; Hard - Peter Sears; In Praise of Bad Boys and the Evolutionary Leap - Therese Becker; Why I Wrote the "Magic" Johnson Poem - Quincy Troupe; Halftime; The Art of the Cheer - Debra Marquart; Third Quarter; Fast Break - William Heyen; Tipping Off - Lauren (Jentz) Jensen; Off the Rim - Adrian Matejka; Courting Risk: Thoughts on Basketball and Poetry - Patricia Clark; Basketball, Failure, and Amateur Pleasure - Jeff Gundy; My Two Obsessions: Basketball and Poetry - Marian Haddad; Fourth Quarter 327 $a"More Beautiful Than Words Can Tell": A Poet's Education in SouthernBasketball - Bobby C. RogersBlessed - Ross Gay; It Was Easier to Say, "I'm a Basketball Player" Than It Is to Say, "I'm a Poet" - Jack Ridl; Reading Sebastian Matthews - James McKean; Going Exactly Where We Want to Go - Marjorie Maddox; Squeak from Shoes - Richard Newman; Overtime; Announcing My Retirement - J. D. Scrimgeour; Team Roster; Acknowledgments 330 $aIf 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 he 606 $aBasketball 606 $aSports$vPoetry 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aBasketball. 615 0$aSports 676 $a796.323 701 $aDavis$b Todd$0964953 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463506803321 996 $aFast break to line break$92189310 997 $aUNINA