In which I examine my longtime relationship with sports, along with some of its literary associations.
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Tag Archives: Dabney Stuart
How Sports Spurred My Literary Imagination
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Ties", "To Be of Use", Brian Gottfried, Jean Renoir, Julius Caesar, Marge Piercy, Roger Federer, Rules of the Game, Sports, sprezzatura, tennis, Tobias Wilson-Bates, William Shakespeare Leave a comment
Memories of My Son, the Baseball Player
I hope I may be excused for revisiting a poem I have posted on before, along with some of my previous observations about it. It is a sports poem that brings to mind my oldest son, who died 11 years ago on this day. Dabney Stuart’s “Ties” is out of season—it’s about football—and Justin’s sport was baseball. Nevertheless I feel awash in sadness and sweet memory when I read it.
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Quarterback Poems for Inspiration
When I was a child, my father used to read us poems from a wonderful poetry anthology called Some Haystacks Don’t Even Have Any Needle, edited by Stephen Dunning. Two of the poems were about quarterbacks, which seems appropriate for this Super Bowl week given that the top two quarterbacks in football will be playing. […]
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "The Passer", "Ties", Football, George Abbe, Sports Comments closed