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    A Miltonic Sonnet About Being Given the Game Ball After a Play in Right Field: And 51 Other Modern Poems in Sonnet Form
    A Miltonic Sonnet About Being Given the Game Ball After a Play in Right Field: And 51 Other Modern Poems in Sonnet Form
    A Miltonic Sonnet About Being Given the Game Ball After a Play in Right Field: And 51 Other Modern Poems in Sonnet Form
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    A Miltonic Sonnet About Being Given the Game Ball After a Play in Right Field: And 51 Other Modern Poems in Sonnet Form

    By David Crump

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    "If you haven't read poetry since high school, now is the time to start!"
    -Richard Alderman
    KTRK Channel 13 (ABC Television) "Beethoven Baseball Buicks [and] Elway . These sonnets enjoy the world!"
    -Patricia Yongue
    Professor of English, University of Houston "[E]xtraordinary What fun these poems are!"
    -Bryan Garner
    Garner's Dictionary of Modern American Usage
    (Oxford University Press) "[These] meticulously crafted sonnets rocket exuberantly from the ancient world to cyberspace, unsettling the mind [and] surprising the heart."
    -Carolyn Wilkerson Bell
    Susan Duval Anderson Professor of English,
    Randolph-Macon Woman's College
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateJul 7, 2004
    ISBN9780595768325
    A Miltonic Sonnet About Being Given the Game Ball After a Play in Right Field: And 51 Other Modern Poems in Sonnet Form
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    David Crump

    David Crump is professor of religion at Calvin College,Grand Rapids, Michigan, and the author of Jesus theIntercessor: Prayer and Christology in Luke-Acts andKnocking on Heaven’s Door: A New TestamentTheology of Petitionary Prayer."

    Read more from David Crump

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      A Miltonic Sonnet About Being Given the Game Ball After a Play in Right Field - David Crump

      A Miltonic Sonnet

      about Being Given

      the Game Ball after

      a Play in Right Field

      ...and 51 Other Modern Poems in Sonnet Form

      David Crump

      iUniverse, Inc.

      New York Lincoln Shanghai

      A Miltonic Sonnet about Being Given the Game Ball

      after a Play in Right Field

      ...and 51 Other Modern Poems in Sonnet Form

      All Rights Reserved © 2004 by David Crump

      No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by

      any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying,

      recording, taping, or by any information storage retrieval system, without

      the written permission of the publisher.

      iUniverse, Inc.

      For information address:

      iUniverse, Inc.

      2021 Pine Lake Road, Suite 100

      Lincoln, NE 68512

      www.iuniverse.com

      ISBN: 0-595-32029-5

      ISBN: 0-595-76832-6 (ebk)

      Printed in the United States of America

      Contents

      Preface:

      Why Sonnets?

      And Why a Sonnet about Baseball?

      Part I:

      Men at

      Work

      1

      A Miltonic Sonnet about

      Being Given the Game Ball

      after a Play in Right Field

      2

      Reddi-Wip

      3

      Chuck Berry

      4

      Detox Scholarship

      5

      Milton

      way

      7

      Wealth of Nations

      8

      Death Row Diary

      9

      Martin Luther

      Part II:

      Blood

      and Gold

      10

      The View that Galileo’s Judges

      Would Have of Him Today

      if They Happened to Meet Him

      in Misdemeanor Court

      11

      Elegy

      12

      The Goldsmith

      13

      A Death Among the Incas

      14

      Valley Girl

      15

      The Mayor’s Milkweed,

      or

      How the Citizens Would Act

      after Storming the Bastille

      if They Did It Today

      16

      Opening Day

      17

      e-mail

      Part III:

      Everyday

      Artists

      18

      Mondriaan

      19

      Disney in Paris

      20

      Oath of Office

      21

      Cezanne

      22

      Lowrider

      23

      Toccata and Fugue in D Minor

      24

      Dylan Thomas

      25

      Double Play

      Part IV:

      Sometimes

      a Sonnet

      Is Only

      Words

      26

      A Sonnet Strung Together out of

      Several Really Old and Tired Jokes

      27

      Carthage

      28

      What It Means

      29

      Happy

      Lewis Carroll

      Spring Nonsense Sonnet

      30

      Bug Eyes

      31

      Beethoven’s Sixth

      32

      A Secret Agent Genius Athlete

      Rockstar Lover‘s Daydream

      33

      Faculty Meeting

      34

      Five Lame Jokes and a Sonnet

      Part V:

      The Hundred-

      and-Fourteenth

      Element

      35

      The Hundred-and-Fourteenth Element

      36

      Astonishment of Heart

      37

      Overheard at a Bar

      on the Internet

      38

      The Class of Twenty-oh-Three

      39

      What Schizophrenics

      Talk about on the Inside

      40

      Wakeup Call

      41

      Dead from Rock ‘n Roll

      42

      Stairway

      43

      Bridget,

      or

      Could There Possibly Be

      Fine Art Made by Buick?

      Part VI:

      A Different

      Love Sonnet

      44

      Lost Parents’ Daughter

      45

      T-Cat’s Sonnet of

      Modern True Romance

      46

      Generations

      47

      But What Did Hemingway’s

      Waiter Think?

      48

      Later Dreams

      49

      Rebel Angels

      50

      Country Club Woman

      51

      An Airplane in the Attic

      52

      A Different Love Sonnet

      Preface:

      Why Sonnets?

      And Why a Sonnet about Baseball?

      IT WAS NEW YEAR’S DAY. I made only one resolution. I would write a sonnet a week for all fifty-two weeks of the year.

      That is how this book came to be.

      I waited a few weeks before telling anybody. It’s embarrassing when

      friends ask, How’s your writing?, and all you can answer is, I guess I wasn’t serious. I figured I’d crank out a few poems first, just to be sure I could do it.

      Then, after I got five or six on paper, I assembled a mailing list of family, friends, and English teachers. One reason for recruiting this audience was to force

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