Bodies built for game : the Prairie Schooner anthology of contemporary sports writing /
edited by Natalie Diaz ; Hannah Ensor, associate editor.
Bok Engelsk 2019 · Electronic books.
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| Medvirkende | Diaz, Natalie, (editor.)
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| Utgitt | University of Nebraska Press
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| Omfang | 1 online resource
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| Opplysninger | Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- In Defense of Allen Iverson -- Bolting into Throat -- last summer of innocence -- American Pharoah -- Takes Enemy -- Professional Wrestling Holds -- He takes me -- The Hit Man -- Psych Ward Visitation Hour -- The Wars -- After Simone Manuel's Olympic Victory in the Women's 100m Freestyle -- In the outfield, daydreaming -- The Meaning of Serena Williams -- Serena Williams Walks -- Boxing Out -- Summertime -- Aaron Hernandez is my brother -- The Church of Michael Jordan -- Built For It -- Federer as Irreligious Experience -- prayer when knees give -- Days of '95 II -- Baseball -- To Prevent Hypothermia -- Give and Go -- Perfect Form -- Black Boxers -- The Cock Fight Place -- A Note on Process -- How Are You Feeling -- The Wrestler -- War Training -- A Boy & -- His Mother Play Dead at Dawn -- As If We Were Called -- Run -- From Heaven, My Father Sends His Regrets -- Russian Sport -- Feel for the Water -- I reckon, a latitude -- A Perfect Game -- Dennis -- At Eighty-Two My Father Is Learning to Walk Again -- Clank -- Liquid -- Losing the 440-Yard Dash -- Sports Analogy -- Why to Run Racks -- El Barril -- Who Got This Far -- Project Artifacts -- La Llorona Runs Alone -- Alone in the Schoolyard at Dusk -- why i can't play basketball anymore -- The Condition of Being a Sports Fan -- Take Me Out -- Parking Lot Poem with Fernando Valenzuela -- Strike Indicator -- Minor League Legend -- Losing to the Invisible -- High School Yoga -- Southpaw Skin the Gloves -- Playbook -- Games -- Mudita World Peace -- At the gym, moments after I failed a squat attempt that would have been easy pre-sitting-induced pinched nerve -- Inside the City Walls -- Diana Nyad as J. M. W. Turner -- game recognizes game -- Off Sides -- The Chain -- Young Woman Wrestler -- Self-Portrait with Ghost, Rising.. - Infield Contrapuntal -- Shots Missed -- Sports History -- The Yo-Yo Heir's Lament -- Stadium Mocs -- Bad Love Affair -- Ode to the Dream Shake -- Catch -- The Sum of Our Doing -- Who Holds the Stag's Head Gets to Speak -- Polaroid -- Of Competition or "And the sheeted dead did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets" -- Darkening the Belt -- From Farewell to Soccer -- ¡Sangre! ¡Sangre! ¡Sangre! -- This Is Not an Essay about Wrestling, or If David Markson Loved the WWF Like I Did When I Was 12 -- The Curtain -- Ladies' Arm Wrestling Match at the Blue Moon Diner -- Scorekeep -- Ghazal at the End of Hogpen Road -- Can We Have Our Ball Back? -- untitled -- Productive Antagonisms -- The Rookie -- Cross Country -- Another Kind of Faith -- Why Pam Hates Sprite and Sunflower Seeds -- The Tribes -- All the Flesh, Singing -- Between Practice -- Source Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors.
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| Emner | |
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| ISBN | 1-4962-1912-0
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