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Overview
A collection of poems devoted to the Boston Red Sox spanning the period 1999 through 2013. Each poem is a "translation" from a well-known poem into a kind of hymn or ode to the Boston baseball team. Thus the title poem is a line-by-line revision of T.S. Eliot's immortal "The Waste Land." Along with a few original works, the reader will find poems based on templates provided by poets as diverse as John Keats and Marianne Moore; Wordsworth and Robert Lowell; Poe and Pound; W.C. Williams and William Shakespeare. Begun as a goof, they seem to have acquired resonance over the years of their composition.
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- ISBN-13: 9781483979793
- ISBN-10: 1483979792
- Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publish Date: December 2013
- Dimensions: 9.02 x 5.98 x 0.13 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.22 pounds
- Page Count: 64
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