Fan poems

by Tom Clark

1976, trade paperback edition, North Atlantic Books, VT. Nice combination of thoughts and poetry on baseball players who have impacted the author's life.

Genres: Poetry

58 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1976

About the author

Clark was an American poet, editor and biographer. Clark was educated at the University of Michigan and served as poetry editor of "The Paris Review" from 1963 to 1973 and published numerous volumes of poetry with Black Sparrow Press. His literary essays and reviews have appeared in "The New York Times," "Times Literary Supplement," and many other journals.

Reviews

[Mark Schultz · Rating 3 out of 5]

A rediscovery. This book was given to me by then-INFACT organizer Heather Zackson in Los Angeles around 1990. It is a fun, quick read, with some insights delivered in the midst. Most of the poems are titled with the names of baseball players. It starts with a poem I used to quote occasionally, for its audacity and dollop of truth:

The Baseball Connection

Baseball relates me to my own life
And to other’s like nothing else
Ever has, not even English.