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Volume 05, Number 1 (1980)

Tish: Bowering's Infield Position

  • Ellen Quigley
Submitted
May 22, 2008
Published
1980-01-01

Abstract

George Bowering's poem "Baseball" is a fine example of the poetry of the Tish movement, which was related to the Black Mountain school of poetics of Charles Olson, Robert Creely, and others. "Baseball" simultaneously follows the rules of propriorception, universalism, kinetics, and objectism, and gently satirizes them. Quigly's article is a painstaking analysis of the poem.