{"product_id":"world-ball-notebook-paperback","title":"World Ball Notebook - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSesshu Foster\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2009 Asian American Literary Awards in Poetry and 2010 American Book Award\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first team sport in human history was played with a ball made of stone, on courts that have been found from the Mayan ruins of Central America to Arizona. Thus, we find a soccer dad walking the sidelines of a scuffed LA field, its goal lines swirling, nets strung loosely between daylight and the spirit world--Sesshu Foster's inimitably fierce and powerfully evocative mix of the fantastic and the mundane.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWorld Ball Notebook\u003c\/em\u003e is a hybrid genre mixed text, composed of extracts from travel notebooks, email poems, postcard jottings, letters and blog posts, a record of the written moment compiled, refracted, prismatic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoet Sesshu Foster is the author of the highly acclaimed \u003cem\u003eCity Terrace Field Manual \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eAtomic Aztex\u003c\/em\u003e, a novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat playing field are we on exactly? The game gets hotter more interesting and 'stranged' as Sesshu Foster expands the metaphor in this dizzying collection of 'high energy constructs'. A delicious mongrel mix of cross-cultural underbelly reveries, anecdotes, observations, snapshots, histories, politics. He is one of our wittiest, wide-awake, astute, 21st century raconteurs. 'Take me out to the ballgame . . . I don't care if I never come back . . . '--Anne Waldman, \u003cem\u003eThe Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWorld Ball Notebook\u003c\/em\u003e is Sesshu Foster's breakthrough book, in which he raises the trenchant deadpan observations of \u003cem\u003eCity Terrance Field Manual\u003c\/em\u003e and the alternative-universe hijinks of \u003cem\u003eAtomik Aztex\u003c\/em\u003e to a new and even more potent level. (Beware, dear reader: the contents of this book are radioactive.) Always surprising and incisive, Foster now finds the marvelous in the ordinary, banal, and abject, and, in the words that dance and tremble, he conveys the sheer (and often terrifying) wonder that one is alive in a weird and terrible time. It is this wonder--this sense of seeing everyday life for the first time, and embracing every part of it without exception--that places Foster at the forefront of innovative and daring writing. This book is exhilarating, and I am grateful to the author for giving me a chance to see the world this way.--John Yau\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSesshu Foster taught composition and literature in East LA for twenty years. He won the 2010 American Book Award for \u003cem\u003eWorld Ball Notebook\u003c\/em\u003e, the 2009 Asian American Literary Award for Poetry for \u003cem\u003eWorld Ball Notebook\u003c\/em\u003e, the 2005 Believer Book Award for \u003cem\u003eAtomik Aztex\u003c\/em\u003e, the 1990 American Book Award for \u003cem\u003eInvocation LA: Urban Multicultural Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e, and was a finalist for a PEN Center West Poetry Prize and for the Paterson Poetry Prize for \u003cem\u003eCity Terrace Field Manual.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor of \u003cem\u003eCity Terrace Field Manual\u003c\/em\u003e (Kaya Press, 1996) and \u003cem\u003eAtomik Aztex\u003c\/em\u003e (City Lights, 2005), Sesshu Foster teaches literature and composition in East L.A., where he grew up. His poetry has been published in numerous anthologies and journals. Invocation L.A.: Multicultural Urban Poetry, which he edited with Naomi Quinonez and Michelle Clinton, won a 1990 American Book Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.41 x 8.26 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42174614208647,"sku":"9780872864672","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/afaacc02ad45d6a54f6225d07541f735.webp?v=1733375425","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/world-ball-notebook-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}