Body Language: Writers on Sport

by Gerald Early (editor)

Body Writers on Sport , the second book in the Graywolf Forum Series, gathers thirteen contemporary creative writers who offer personal reflections on our public from the pool hustler to the closet baseball fan; from late-night rodeo on cable TV to tennis games on the weathered fields of Illinois; from the aging basketball player to the anxious young girl determining whether to strike out the boy who is her friend. Through these individual narratives we begin to recognize the universal themes that galvanize both sport and conflict and sacrifice, ritual and passion, humiliation and heroism. Gerald Early
Jonis Agee
Teri Bostian
Cecil Brown
Wayne Fields
Lorraine Kee
Phillip Lopate
James A. McPherson
Vijay Seshadri
Kris Vervaecke
Loïc Wacquant
Anthony Walton
David Foster Wallace

Genres: Nonfiction

232 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998