{"product_id":"monks-love-the-curveball-paperback","title":"Monks Love the Curveball - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAdam Jameson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdam Jameson was born and raised in Pittsburg Kansas. He is a 1995 graduate of Pittsburg State University with a B.A. in History. He has a varied job history but has spent the last 11 years with Evergy as meter reader and now an Estimator. His work has appeared in \u003cem\u003eHarp, The Little Balkans Review, To the Stars Through Difficulty \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eGhost Sign \u003c\/em\u003ewhich was named a Kansas Notable Book. He was recently featured on Garrison Keillor's \u003cem\u003eThe Writers Almanac. \u003c\/em\u003eHis poetry collection #9 to \u003cem\u003eSallisaw \u003c\/em\u003ewas published by The Little Balkans Press. He's also spent the last 30 years performing with White Buffalo Poetry and Blues. He lives in rural Pittsburg with his wife Mer, son Cole and a bossy Shi Tzu named Scooter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJameson's poems make the ordinary sacred. \"Monks Love the Curveball\" celebrates his passionate love of family, baseball, work and hunting. Lyrical and objective, the poems are snapshots of the moment, while celebrating the passage of time. I feel more human, more alive after reading these poems because as a father and former baseball player his vision is universal, a vision I can feel in my bones.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJ.T. Knoll, Ghost Sign\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Adam Jameson's new work, \u003cem\u003eMonks Love the Curve Ball\u003c\/em\u003e, this Kansas-seer, native sonexplores the rhythmic and sometimes eccentric serenity of everyday life in his part of the world. We welcome in his life of baseball games, both past and present, earth tilling, splitting wood: \"Splitting wood by hand tends to keep the people away,\" useful workadays, writing, duck hunting and good dogs. To say baseball is just a metaphor for things like ritual, community and family is almost a disservice. He's occupying the terrain somewhere between Wendell Berry's farmer\/poet and Jack Spicer's baseball afficionado\/poet, who once wrote: \"The pitcher, in his sudden humanness, looks toward the dugout in either agony or triumph.\" Adam's triumph is his language: plain-spoken, passionate and revealing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e -John Macker, Author of \u003cem\u003eThe Blues Drink Your Dreams Away\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAtlas of Wolves.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJameson knows the grit of dirt, the smell of sweat--not only on the baseball field, but also through a long hot day, an endless cold night, off-field. Life's simple, subtle curveballs are explored in these poems: how to raise kids, cut wheat, order burgers or drinks. The language is plain-style, and the statements direct, but there is also much magic here, like how a homer hit might \"rip through night,\" accompanied by moths swarming a stadium light. There's that kind of simple, downhome beauty here--masculine, but not macho, strength without the shove.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e --Kevin Rabas, Everyone Just Wants to Drum, Poet Laureate of Kansas, 2017-2019\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 70\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.17 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 12, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45855773065413,"sku":"9781950380923","price":14.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/dW1xZUw4UVZIcVd1dFJzeXkzUzVkdz09.webp?v=1771488928","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/monks-love-the-curveball-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}