Comparison Of Poems By John Updike And Robert Penn Warren Have In Common

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What do writers John Updike and Robert Penn Warren have in common. Well among other things to each other in a poem about baseball. John Updike who has written other sports related literature wrote the poem Tao in Yankee stadium bleachers and Robert Penn Warren wrote the poem He Was Formidable. Both of these poems appear in the book “Hummers, Knuckles, and Slow Curves, Contemporary Baseball Poems” [University of Illinois Press; Urbana and Chicago, 1991.] an anthology. For people who thought that baseball and poetry were mutually exclusive, this is the book to change their minds. Baseball poetry, they'll goes being the ballot Casey at Bat, this volume including Eighty-four poems written by fifty-seven poets in the 1950s to the 1980s. Some

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