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Sort of Gone, Poems by Sarah Freligh

The hard-bitten dreamers in Sarah Freligh’s Sort of Gone are chasing the baseball life, giving themselves to it. Players and fans, they learn the glories and heartbreaks of the game that we call America’s Pasttime. Freligh’s gritty portraits cut past romanticism and reveal the true, enduring romance of the game.

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“In Sort of Gone we root for Sarah Freligh’s hard-throwing pitcher Al Stepansky even as we wish to dowse him with a cup of beer. How else can we respond to a cocky womanizer, who escapes his abusive father in hardscrabble Buffalo, New York to land, years later, in the Major Leagues, what ball players call: The Show. In seemingly-effortless fashion, Freligh has created a man who, as he succeeds in big-time sport, is painfully-aware of his many self-indulgent failings, balls that just miss the strike zone. Like us, Stepansky needs far more love than he can give. Like us, he finds himself staggering between the almost-meaningful and the absurd, sort of here, sort of gone. If you only read one poetry book a year – choose this one.”--Thom Ward

Sarah Freligh was born and raised in Michigan and is a lifelong fan of the Detroit Tigers. She was the recipient of a Constance Saltonstall Foundation grant for poetry in 2006 and an Artist Residency Exchange Grant in 1997 from the New York Foundation for the Arts during which she completed work on a short story collection entitled The Absence of Gravity. A former sportswriter for the Philadelphia Inquirer, shecurrently lives in Rochester, New York, where she’s at work on a novel, Half-Past Crazy.

ISBN 978-1933456997, 88 pages

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