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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2009 Asian American Literary Awards in Poetry and 2010 American Book Award
The 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.
World Ball Notebook 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.
Poet Sesshu Foster is the author of the highly acclaimed City Terrace Field Manual and Atomic Aztex, a novel.
What playing field are we on exactly? The game gets hotter more interesting and ''stranged'' as Sesshu Foster e
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Reviews of Atomik Aztex: "It sounds completely unmanageable, but readers will be blown away by Foster's control over the material, the beautiful segues between worlds and the way in which the question "what time is it?" accrues more and more weight. Brilliantly inventive . . ." -- Publishers Weekly Starred Review ". . . a book so heedlessly imaginative it often seems ready to burst its pages like a comic-book POW." -- Bookforum
