Bodies Built for Game : the Prairie Schooner Anthology of Contemporary Sports Writing.
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Lincoln :
UNP - Nebraska,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- 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 HypothermiaGive 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 anymoreThe 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 LamentStadium 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 CountryAnother Kind of Faith; Why Pam Hates Sprite and Sunflower Seeds; The Tribes; All the Flesh, Singing; Between Practice; Source Acknowledgments; List of Contributors
