World Ball Notebook by Sesshu Foster (English) Paperback Book

Description: World Ball Notebook by Sesshu Foster Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description A genre-breaking adventure: narrative prose poems filled with awe, yearning, acerbic wit, and crystalline observations. Publisher Description Winner of the 2009 Asian American Literary Awards in Poetry and 2010 American Book AwardThe first team sport in human history was played with a ball made of stone, on courts that have been found from the Mayan ruins of Central America to Arizona. Thus, we find a soccer dad walking the sidelines of a scuff ed LA field, its goal lines swirling, nets strung loosely between daylight and the spirit world-Sesshu Fosters inimitably fierce and powerfully evocative mix of the fantastic and the mundane.World Ball Notebook is a hybrid genre mixed text, composed of extracts from travel notebooks, email poems, postcard jottings, letters and blog posts, a record of the written moment compiled, refracted, prismatic.Poet Sesshu Foster is the author of the highly acclaimed City Terrace Field Manual and Atomic Aztex, a novel."What playing field are we on exactly? The game gets hotter more interesting and stranged as Sesshu Foster expands the metaphor in this dizzying collection of high energy constructs. A delicious mongrel mix of cross-cultural underbelly reveries, anecdotes, observations, snapshots, histories, politics. He is one of our wittiest, wide-awake, astute, 21st century raconteurs. Take me out to the ballgame...I dont care if I never come back..." -Anne Waldman, The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics"World Ball Notebook is Sesshu Fosters breakthrough book, in which he raises the trenchant deadpan observations of City Terrance Field Manual and the alternative-universe hijinks of Atomik Aztex to a new and even more potent level. (Beware, dear reader: the contents of this book are radioactive.) Always surprising and incisive, Foster now finds the marvelous in the ordinary, banal, and abject, and, in the words that dance and tremble, he conveys the sheer (and often terrifying) wonder that one is alive in a weird and terrible time. It is this wonderthis sense of seeing everyday life for the first time, and embracing every part of it without exceptionthat places Foster at the forefront of innovative and daring writing. This book is exhilarating, and I am grateful to the author for giving me a chance to see the world this way." -John YauSesshu Foster taught composition and literature in East LA for twenty years. He won the 2010 American Book Award for World Ball Notebook, the 2009 Asian American Literary Award for Poetry for World Ball Notebook, the 2005 Believer Book Award for Atomik Aztex, the 1990 American Book Award for Invocation LA: Urban Multicultural Poetry, and was a finalist for a PEN Center West Poetry Prize and for the Paterson Poetry Prize for City Terrace Field Manual. Author Biography Sesshu Foster taught composition and literature in East L.A. for over 20 years, and at the University of Iowa, the California Institute for the Arts, and the University of California, Santa Cruz. His work is published in The Oxford Anthology of Modern American Poetry, Language for a New Century: Poetry from the Middle East, Asia and Beyond, and State of the Union: 50 Political Poems. His most recent novel isEladatl: A History of the East Los Angeles Dirigible Air Transport Lineswith Arturo Ernesto Romo, published by City Lights. His previous books include the novelAtomik Aztexand the poetry collectionWorld Ball Notebook, both with City Lights, as well asCity of the FutureandCity Terrace Field Manual. A celebrated writer, his literary awards are numerous: Sesshu was awarded the American Book Award and the Asian American Literary Award in Poetry forWorld Ball Notebook; the Believer Book Award forAtomik Aztex; an American Book Award for Invocation LA: Urban Multicultural Poetry; and finalist for the PEN Center West Poetry Prize, as well as the Paterson Poetry Prize, forCity Terrace Field Manual. Sesshu is based in Alhambra, CA. Details ISBN 0872864677 ISBN-13 9780872864672 Title World Ball Notebook Author Sesshu Foster Format Paperback Year 2009 Pages 96 Publisher City Lights Books GE_Item_ID:140487057; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. 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