The Songs of Summer

<p>Filled with profound lyrical and nostalgic poems <em>The Songs of Summer: Poems About Baseball </em>is the book for any baseball fan with a literary bent. Fifty-six poets exhibit their passion for the sport in a companionable collection of poems tinged with humor sensibility and pathos.</p><p></p><p>From Roberto Clemente and Al Kaline and Billy Martin to minor league stadiums small town ball fields and Little League parks these insightful poems encompass a universe of baseball experience and appreciation. You will go back in time to the Negro Leagues and the All-American Girls League where the s<span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>ounds of the ballpark become the language of poets and the rhythm and choreographies of baseball become lines of verse.</span></p><p></p><p>If you are a baseball fan or simply a lover of good poetry this is the anthology you have been waiting for--carefully selected poems that speak of a love of baseball inning by inning game by game season by season and generation to generation.</p>