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Jackie Robinson's Real Gone: Baseball Poems of New York

Jackie Robinson's Real Gone: Baseball Poems of New York - Paperback

by Matthew Johnson
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Availability:In StockContributor:Matthew JohnsonTheme:Ethnic Orientation/African AmericanPublish date:9/15/2026Pages:90
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Cornerstone PressISBN-13:9781968148669ISBN-10:1968148663UPC:9781968148669Book Category:Poetry, Sports & RecreationBook Subcategory:American, African American & Black, BaseballSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.22 inchesWeight:0.132Product ID:SCHQ3P00SH

"An amazing collection of poems filled with history and memory. While his work acknowledges the great players of the Negro Baseball League, this book also explores the theme of aging. What happens when the 'gift'  begins to fail. What happens when God refuses to promise us extra innings? Johnson has given us a baseball book that understands and plays the blues. Baseball is a game of joy and sadness."

-E. Ethelbert Miller, author of If God Invented Baseball: Poems

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Cornerstone PressISBN-13:9781968148669ISBN-10:1968148663UPC:9781968148669Book Category:Poetry, Sports & RecreationBook Subcategory:American, African American & Black, BaseballSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.22 inchesWeight:0.132Product ID:SCHQ3P00SH
Johnson, Matthew: - Matthew Johnson is the author of Shadow Folks and Soul Songs (2019) and Far from New York State (2024), and the chapbook, Too Short to Box with God (2023). His poetry has appeared in Apple Valley Review, The London Magazine, New York Quarterly Magazine, Northern New England Review, Sport Literate, and elsewhere. A former sports journalist and editor, he formerly lived in New Rochelle, New York, and Stratford, Connecticut, and he now lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, after earning his M.A. in English from UNC Greensboro.
Publisher: Cornerstone Press

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