"... if he handles the pitch perfectly ... "

Suddenly behind the pinch hitter’s back he signaled
the pitcher. Seconds later the catcher fireballed
the potato to the first baseman, tagging
the stealer.

                     — "Tagging the Stealer" Selected Delanty

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Un-Gyve Press to Publish The Collected John Crowe Ransom →

Un-Gyve Press to Publish The Collected John Crowe Ransom

Of the tread of the dark wood mold and turfy rye,

Rich smell of horse in his nostril, wind in his eye,

                                                                       – from In Air, John Crowe Ransom

Edited by Ben Mazer, the first-ever complete edition of the poems of John Crowe Ransom, restoring to the world – in the name not of mercy but of justice – a great many poems that he himself had once (and quite rightly) judged perfectly worthy of publication, poems that, joining now his select poems, will enjoy a renaissance.

 

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