Review — Line Drives: 100 Contemporary Baseball Poems

October 23, 2006

Appeared in ForeWord Magazine, May/June 2002.

The sub-genre of baseball-related poetry is probably one of the most under-Linedrives_largeappreciated in the great tradition of poetry and literature. “No matter how good a baseball poem is,” the editors write in the introduction, “some will always feel that baseball as subject matter relegates a poem to also-ran status.” Brooke Horvath is a professor of English at Kent State University; Tiim Wiles is director of research at the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

Read the full review from ForeWordMagazine.com.

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