White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems 1946-2006 by Donald Hall. (Houghton Mifflin, 2006).Since today is the final day of National Poetry Month I thought the book for this week should be poetry and the latest collection from the U.S. Poet Laureate seemed a perfect choice. This volume includes nine innings of baseball at its center and what could be better for spring in New England?
1. Kurt, last night Dwight Evans put it all
together, the way you made collage,
with an exemplary catch followed
by an assist at first base, a hit
in the seventh inning for the tie,
and another in the last of the
ninth to pull it out at Fenway Park
and win the game. The madness method
of "Baseball" gathers bits and pieces(From The Fifth Inning, p. 227)
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