Thursday
July 2, 2020
Subscribe
Print or Web publication

Poetry - Summer 2014

Manhood

Subscription required

By Jill Bialosky | June 9, 2014

  1.     Chatter   Turn two. Balk. Way to hump. Hey now kid, hey now. Good eye.  That’s all right. That’s all right. Good cut. Inside.  Watch the batter. Hey way to drop it in there kid. That’s the way to hop. Let’s go. Throw the baseball now.  Heads up. Dig, dig, dig. […]

Login to view the full article

If you are a current digital subscriber, login here.

Forgot password?

Need to register?

Already a subscriber through The American Scholar?

OR

Are you a Phi Beta Kappa sustaining member?

Want to subscribe?

Print subscribers get access to our entire website

You can also just subscribe to our website for $9.99.

Permission required for reprinting, reproducing, or other uses.

Jill Bialosky is the author of three volumes of poetry, most recently, Intruder; two novels, House Under Snow and The Life Room; and a memoir, History of a Suicide: My Sister’s Unfinished Life. The poems from “Manhood” are from a 13-part sequence that will appear in a forthcoming collection, “The Players.”

Comments powered by Disqus

THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

2nd Look

Where Does American History Begin?

by Ted Widmer

In honor of the Fourth of July, we’re revisiting Ted Widmer’s 2008 piece “Where Does American History Begin?” For many, the obvious answer is in 1776 Philadelphia, with the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Others might argue that hints of modern America emerged in the Jamestown and Plymouth settlements. But America’s true beginnings, Widmer writes, go back much further.

Smarty Pants Podcast

Newsletter