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Erratic Fire, Erratic Passion is a collection of found poems
composed of the words of professional athletes. The content of
post-game interviews and sports chatter is so often meaningless, if
not insufferable, and yet there are athletes like Metta World Peace
who transcend lame cliches and rote patter, who use language in
surprising ways, who can be funny and shocking and insightful and
alarmingly sincere -- pure poetry. Muhammad Ali offered dazzling
displays of lexical wizardry, and Allen Iverson's infamous
"practice" rant shifted the post-game press conference from the
banal to the absurd. This book is a celebration of these rare and
exceptional moments. Various poetic forms and line-breaks highlight
-- or, in the words of Deion Sanders, "deem to set a candor on" --
the sophisticated, sublime, and surprising performances of language
made by professional athletes.
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