When Your Wife Has Tommy John Surgery and Other Baseball Stories: Poems
by E. Ethelbert Miller
Publication Date: Sep 07, 2021
List Price: $15.99
Format: Paperback, 96 pages
Classification: Poetry
ISBN13: 9781947951365
Imprint: City Point Press
Publisher: City Point Press
Parent Company: Creative Management Partners, LLC
Description of When Your Wife Has Tommy John Surgery and Other Baseball Stories: Poems by E. Ethelbert Miller
Much-honored Washington, D.C. poet activist E. Ethelbert Miller delights and surprises us with his deft imaginings and portraits. Ethelbert’s poems play out in baseball rhythm and express the joy of living, despite the bitter challenges in today’s world. These poems define our time and allow us to see ourselves as human through the lens of baseball, family and music. When Your Wife Has Tommy John Surgery and Other Baseball Stories is Miller’s second book of baseball poems. Here he touches new bases. There are poems about Marcel Duchamp and Ornette Coleman as well as Whitey Ford and Don Larsen. Miller’s poems move the outdoor game indoors where there are moments of disappointment and despair. Baseball can be a blues game. Tommy John surgery is a way of holding onto hope. Many of these poems were written during the Covid pandemic. They beckon fans back to the ballpark. They remind us to enjoy a game that is precious and maybe even essential to our wellness. Coming after If God Invented Baseball, Miller seems to emerge from a literary dugout after a brief rain delay, ready to celebrate the American pastime again.
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