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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction: Bodies built for game / Natalie Diaz -- In defense of Allen Iverson / Hanif Abdurraqib -- Bolting into throat / Patricia Smith -- last summer of innocence / Danez Smith -- American Pharaoh / Ada Limón -- Takes enemy / Shann Ray -- Professional wrestling holds / Ashaki Jackson -- He takes me / Paul Tran -- The hit man / Stacey Waite -- Psych ward visitation hour / b: william bearheart -- The wars excerpt from LaRose / Louise Erdrich -- After Simone Manuel's Olympic victory in the women's 100m freestyle / Lauren Espinoza -- In the outfield, daydreaming / francine j. harris -- The meaning of Serena Williams: on tennis and Black excellence / Claudia Rankine -- Serena Williams walks / Kwame Dawes -- Boxing out / Adrian Matejka -- Summertime / Joel Salcido -- Aaron Hernandez is my brother / Randall J. Tyrone -- The church of Michael Jordan / Jeffrey McDaniel -- Built for it / Lisa Olstein -- Federer as irreligious experience / Porochista Khakpour -- prayer when knees give / Nate Marshall -- Days of '95 II / Shane Lake -- Baseball / Izzy Wasserstein -- To prevent hypothermia / Fatimah Asghar -- Give and go / Toni Jensen -- Perfect form / Kamilah Aisha Moon -- Black boxers: a brief history / Benjamin Krusling -- The cock fight place / Alberto Rios -- A note on process / Meghan O'Rourke -- How are you feeling / Ana Božičević -- The wrestler / Kazim Ali -- War training: an athletics / Nomi Stone -- A boy & his mother play dead at dawn / Michael Wasson -- As if we were called / Reginald Dwayne Betts -- Run / Gary Jackson -- From heaven, my father sends his regrets / Cornelius Eady -- Russian sport / Vera Pavlova -- Feel for the water / Christian Campbell -- I reckon, a latitude / Asiya Wadud -- A perfect game / Yesenia Montilla -- Dennis / Kaveh Akbar -- At eighty-two my father is learning to walk again / Esther Lin -- Clank / Tomás Q. Morin -- Liquid / Aaron Smith -- Losing the 440-yard dash / Afaa M. Weaver -- Sports analogy / David Tomas Martinez -- Why to run racks / Lisa Fay Coutley -- El barril / James Thomas Stevens -- Who got this far / Marissa Johnson-Valenzuela -- Project artifacts: through the banks of the red cedar / Maya Washington -- |
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La Llorona runs alone / Claudia D. Hernández -- Alone in the schoolyard at dusk / Dorianne Laux -- why i can't play basketball anymore / Richard Vargas -- The condition of being a sports fan / Sue Hyon Bae -- Take me out / Iliana Rocha -- Parking lot poem with Fernando Valenzuela / Matthew Lippman -- Strike indicator / Pamela Hart -- Minor league legend / Matthew Olzmann -- Losing to the invisible: an ars poetica / Traci Brimhall -- High school yoga / Kat Page -- Southpaw skin the gloves / Alicia Mountain -- Playbook / Hannah Oberman-Breindel -- Games / L. Lamar Wilson -- Mudita world peace / Hannah Ensor -- At the gym, moments after I failed a squat attempt that would have been easy pre-sitting-induced pinched nerve / Candace Williams -- Inside the city walls / Norman Dubie -- Diana Nyad as J.M.W. Turner / BK Fischer -- game recognizes game / t'ai freedom ford -- Off sides / Susan Briante -- The chain / Elyse Fenton -- Young woman wrestler / Tria Blu Wakpa -- Self-portrait with ghost, rising / Dean Rader -- Infield contrapuntal / Meg Day -- Shots missed / Celeste Adame -- Sports history / Brett Fletcher Lauer -- The yo-yo heir's lament / Eugene Gloria -- Stadium mocs / Chip Livingston -- Bad love affair / Joseph Millar -- Ode to the dream shake / Ben Purkert -- Catch / Trevino Brings Plenty -- The sum of our doing / Holly M. Wendt -- Who holds the stag's head gets to speak / Gabrielle Calvocoressi -- Polaroid: links / Stacey Lynn Brown -- Of competition or "And the sheeted dead did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets" / Brendan Constantine -- Darkening the belt / Anders Carlson- Wee -- From Farewell to soccer: Ninety-minute-long stories / Valerio Magrelli -- ¡Sangre! ¡Sangre! ¡Sangre! / Nandi Comer -- This is not an essay about wrestling, or If David Markson loved the WWE like I did when I was 12 / John Findura -- The curtain / Ryan Black -- Ladies' arm wrestling match at the Blue Moon Diner / Jenny Johnson -- Scorekeep / Tommy Orange -- Ghazal at the end of Hogpen Road / J. Scott Brownlee -- Can we have our ball back? / Matthew Dickman -- untitled / Kevin Goodan -- Productive antagonisms / Saretta Morgan and Christina Olivares -- The rookie / January Gill O'Neil -- Cross country / Roger Reeves -- Another kind of faith / Joaquín Zihuatanejo -- Why Pam hates Sprite and sunflower seeds / Alison Rollins -- The tribes / Chee Brossy -- All the flesh, singing / Shivanee Ramlochan -- Between practice / Terrance Hayes. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Sports -- Social aspects.
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Sports -- Social aspects. |
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Sports. |
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Sports -- Physiological aspects.
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Sports -- Physiological aspects. |
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Nationalism and sports.
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Sports stories.
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Nationalism and sports. |
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Sports stories.
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Sports -- Poetry.
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Poetry.
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Sports stories. |
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- Essays. |
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Poetry.
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Electronic books.
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poetry.
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Poetry.
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| Added Author |
Diaz, Natalie, editor.
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Ensor, Hannah, 1986- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bodies built for game. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2019] 9781496217738 (DLC) 2019013807 (OCoLC)1099546583 |
| ISBN |
9781496219121 (electronic book) |
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1496219120 (electronic book) |
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9781496217738 |
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149621773X |
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9781496219107 (epub ; alkaline paper) |
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9781496219114 (mobi ; alkaline paper) |
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