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beardedbarista's review
5.0
As far as poetry goes I enjoyed this more than almost all the other trying to hard to be thought provoking poems I have ever read. It may be associated with the fact that the people reciting the words were famous athletes.
Some amazing stuff though.
Some of the poetry was inspiring and not that it may not have been in its original context but the way Jeff and Pasha set them into order was brilliant. Memorable moments were Larry Bird, Mike Tyson, and Muhammad Ali's stuff. Iversons "Practice" was a favorite of mine since he said it a few years back and glad that it made the cut.
Blew through this read and even read some of the poems over out loud.
If you love sports and poetry or either at all pick this up and have it to share with friends they will enjoy it for the sports and think you are sophisticated because of the poetry ;)
Your poetic, bearded, sort of athletic friend,
Justin
Some amazing stuff though.
Some of the poetry was inspiring and not that it may not have been in its original context but the way Jeff and Pasha set them into order was brilliant. Memorable moments were Larry Bird, Mike Tyson, and Muhammad Ali's stuff. Iversons "Practice" was a favorite of mine since he said it a few years back and glad that it made the cut.
Blew through this read and even read some of the poems over out loud.
If you love sports and poetry or either at all pick this up and have it to share with friends they will enjoy it for the sports and think you are sophisticated because of the poetry ;)
Your poetic, bearded, sort of athletic friend,
Justin
uncommonlybound's review
3.0
Read for Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge 2017: "Read a book about sports"
melanie_page's review
5.0
Never fails to be thoughtful, funny, and creative. Athletes are a strange bunch.
wtfisapoet's review
4.0
An incredible exploration into the forum of sports poetry by appropriating the voices and commentary of those directly effect by the subject itself. This work accompanies David Foster Wallace's famous essay on "Rodger Federer as Religious Experience" in affirming the assertion that sports in "poetry in motion". Simultaneously, this text also manages to adequately explore the sexual, gender and racial dimensions of the sports realm proving a school of sports poetry need not be limited to tropes associated with the sport in question or to the tradition poetic voice. A must-read for lovers of sports before lovers of poetry.
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