As I read Proust’s “Swann’s Way,” I imagined what it must have meant to a friend, who read it when he was dying.
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Reflecting upon Football’s Carnage
What may be the greatest poem about American football focuses on its violence.
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A Poem for Every Playoff Team
Sports Saturday For the football games this weekend, I found a passage from a poem or passage from a poem that pertains to the name of each team. Enjoy. Atlanta Falcons vs. Green Bay Packers The high-flying Atlanta Falcons boast, among other things, the incomparable receiver Roddy White, who soars skyward to pull down passes. […]
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The Suicidal Beauty of Football
Sports Saturday I’ve always been haunted by James Wright’s poem about high school football in working class Ohio. Wright’s fathers, living ruptured lives, hope for some kind of escape, some kind of renewed virility, through the football prowess of their teenage sons. Perhaps picking up on their parents’ desperation, their sons “gallop terribly” against each […]
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