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Baseball Haiku

By Cor van den Heuvel (Editor), Nanae Tamura (Editor)

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| Hardcover | 9780393062199

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Presenting more than two hundred of the greatest haiku ever written about the game.

One of the most unusual baseball books of the 2007 season, this remarkable new collection, which includes poems from both America and Japan, captures perfectly the thrill of baseball—a double play,Continue

Presenting more than two hundred of the greatest haiku ever written about the game.

One of the most unusual baseball books of the 2007 season, this remarkable new collection, which includes poems from both America and Japan, captures perfectly the thrill of baseball—a double play, a game of catch, or the hushed pause as a pitcher looks in before hurling his pitch. Like haiku, the game is concerned with the nature of the seasons: joyous in the spring, thrilling in summer's heat, ripening with the descent of fall, and remembered fondly in winter. Featuring the work of Jack Kerouac, the king of the Beat writers, who penned the first American baseball haiku, and Alan Pizzarelli, a major American haiku poet, the collection also includes Masaoka Shiki, one of the four great pillars of Japanese haiku, who fell in love with baseball when he was a student in Tokyo. Baseball Haiku, a literary and baseball treasure, will make a marvelous gift for the baseball fan in your family.

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  • Peanuts and popcorn and crackerjack

    Every American schoolboy and schoolgirl knows the mock epic, ‘Casey at the Bat’ (which William Schuman made into an opera), and Franklin Adams’s ‘saddest of possible words,/Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance’ (of the Chicago Cubs’ double-play past masters). T ... (read full critics)

    spectator published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

  • Peanuts and popcorn and crackerjack

    Every American schoolboy and schoolgirl knows the mock epic, ‘Casey at the Bat’ (which William Schuman made into an opera), and Franklin Adams’s ‘saddest of possible words,/Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance’ (of the Chicago Cubs’ double-play past masters). T ... (read full critics)

    spectator published on Mon, 13 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 240 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0393062198
  • ISBN-13: 9780393062199
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton
  • Pub date: Apr 01, 2007
  • Dimensions: 1161 mm x 774 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
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