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Re: PPB: The crowd at the ball game / William Carlos Williams

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From: parnellos.pizza@
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2021 17:55
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George J. Dance wrote:

>On Tuesday, August 10, 2021 at 11:28:00 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
>> On Sunday, August 8, 2021 at 7:21:52 PM UTC-4, George J. Dance wrote:
>
>>> Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
>>> The crowd at the ball game, by William Carlos Williams
>>>
>>> The crowd at the ball game
>>> is moved uniformly
>>>
>>> by a spirit of uselessness
>>> which delights them —
>>> [...]

https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2021/08/the-crowd-at-ball-game-william-carlos.html

>> Robert Pinsky has a good poem about Baseball, I'll look for the link.
>
> I look forward to reading it.
>
> David Rutkowski, formerly of aapc, had a good baseball poem on my blog years ago. I just reread it, and noticed the same sort of slap-dash, in-the-moment feeling I get  from Williams's.

https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2011/04/baseball-david-rutkowski.html

I still see the occasional poem from David R. posted at rec.arts.poems.

Always interesting poetry.

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