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World Ball Notebook
Sesshu Foster
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Description for World Ball Notebook
Paperback. A genre-breaking adventure: narrative prose poems filled with awe, yearning, acerbic wit, and crystalline observations. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 147 x 12. Weight in Grams: 199.
Winner of the 2009 Asian American Literary Awards in Poetry and 2010 American Book Award The first team sport in human history was played with a ball made of stone, on courts that have been found from the Mayan ruins of Central America to Arizona. Thus, we find a soccer dad walking the sidelines of a scuff ed LA field, its goal lines swirling, nets strung loosely between daylight and the spirit world--Sesshu Foster's inimitably fierce and powerfully evocative mix of the fantastic and the mundane. World Ball Notebook is a hybrid genre mixed text, composed of extracts ... Read more
Winner of the 2009 Asian American Literary Awards in Poetry and 2010 American Book Award The first team sport in human history was played with a ball made of stone, on courts that have been found from the Mayan ruins of Central America to Arizona. Thus, we find a soccer dad walking the sidelines of a scuff ed LA field, its goal lines swirling, nets strung loosely between daylight and the spirit world--Sesshu Foster's inimitably fierce and powerfully evocative mix of the fantastic and the mundane. World Ball Notebook is a hybrid genre mixed text, composed of extracts ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
City Lights Books United States
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Monroe, OR, United States
ISBN
9780872864672
SKU
V9780872864672
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99-15
About Sesshu Foster
Author of City Terrace Field Manual(Kaya Press, 1996), and Atomik Aztex (City Lights, 2005), Sesshu Foster teaches literature and composition in East L.A., where he grew up. His poetry has been published in numerous anthologies and journals. Invocation L.A.: Multicultural Urban Poetry, which he edited with Naomi Quinonez and Michelle Clinton, won a 1990 American Book Award.
Reviews for World Ball Notebook
Reviews of Atomik Aztex: "It sounds completely unmanageable, but readers will be blown away by Foster's control over the material, the beautiful segues between worlds and the way in which the question "what time is it?" accrues more and more weight. Brilliantly inventive . . ."
Publishers Weekly Starred Review ". . . a book so heedlessly imaginative it ... Read more
Publishers Weekly Starred Review ". . . a book so heedlessly imaginative it ... Read more