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A Miltonic Sonnet about Being Given the Game Ball after a Play in Right Field

A Miltonic Sonnet about Being Given the Game Ball after a Play in Right Field

A Miltonic Sonnet about Being Given the Game Ball after a Play in Right Field

David Crump

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iUniverse
Año de edición:
2004
Materia
Poesía
ISBN:
9780595320295
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'If you haven’t read poetry since high school, now is the time to start!'--Richard AldermanKTRK Channel 13 (ABC Television)'Beethoven...Baseball...Buicks...[and] Elway.... These sonnets...enjoy the world!'--Patricia YongueProfessor of English, University of Houston'[E]xtraordinary... What fun these poems are!'--Bryan GarnerGarner’s Dictionary of Modern American Usage(Oxford University Press)'[These] meticulously crafted sonnets rocket exuberantly from the ancient world to cyberspace, unsettling the mind...[and] surprising the heart.'--Carolyn Wilkerson BellSusan Duval Anderson Professor of English,Randolph-Macon Woman’s College

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