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Bodies Built for Game: The Prairie Schooner Anthology of Contemporary Sports Writing by Natalie Diaz
smooove_reads's review
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
sad
medium-paced
4.75
gitli57's review against another edition
challenging
informative
reflective
3.0
Anthologies are usually mixed bags and this certainly is. But there are several pieces that are really top shelf, starting with editor Natalie Diaz' introduction. I managed to get the Kindle edition for very little. Happy I read it. Also happy I didn't pay full price for it.
readrunsea's review
5.0
I received an ARC of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review; opinions are my own.
I really took my time with this one, a book so unlike any I’ve ever read and so needed. This anthology is chock full of writers- a great many of whom are poets, POC, LGBTQIA+, gender nonconforming, and Indigenous- bringing such a broad array of voices and viewpoints to sport: what it is to participate in it at different levels, what it means to be a fan, the history of sports culture including violent and racist histories, and generally how identity and sport intersect. This is an infinitely deep topic but this anthology is a fabulous start to broadening representation in sport, and the discussion of what it means to be or love an athlete- the poetry of movement, of games, and the pain of it. It’s so so good and I hope everyone reads it. As a queer and chronically injured athlete who has thought a lot about these questions, it resonated so deeply. So grateful to all the writers who brought this collection together, and Natalie Díaz and Hannah Ensor for collecting it into a volume. More please!
I really took my time with this one, a book so unlike any I’ve ever read and so needed. This anthology is chock full of writers- a great many of whom are poets, POC, LGBTQIA+, gender nonconforming, and Indigenous- bringing such a broad array of voices and viewpoints to sport: what it is to participate in it at different levels, what it means to be a fan, the history of sports culture including violent and racist histories, and generally how identity and sport intersect. This is an infinitely deep topic but this anthology is a fabulous start to broadening representation in sport, and the discussion of what it means to be or love an athlete- the poetry of movement, of games, and the pain of it. It’s so so good and I hope everyone reads it. As a queer and chronically injured athlete who has thought a lot about these questions, it resonated so deeply. So grateful to all the writers who brought this collection together, and Natalie Díaz and Hannah Ensor for collecting it into a volume. More please!
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