For most baseball fans, maybe oldest is always best. We love baseball because it seizes and retains the past, like the snowy village inside a glass paperweight.

Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing.

I want to sleep like the birds then wake to write you again without hope that you read me.

The form of free verse is as binding and as liberating as the form of a rondeau.

Baseball, because of its continuity over the space of America and the time of America, is a place where memory gathers.

Baseball is continuous, like nothing else among American things, an endless game of repeated summers, joining the long generations of all the fathers and all the sons.

For most baseball fans, maybe oldest is always best. We love baseball because it seizes and retains the past, like the snowy village inside a glass paperweight.