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TAO IN THE YANKEE STADIUM BLEACHERS by JOHN UPDIKE

Poet Analysis

First Line: DISTANCE BRINGS PROPORTION. FROM HERE
Last Line: AND, DISTANT AS A PARADISE, EXPERTS, PASSIONATE AND DEFT, %WAIT WHILE BERRA FLIES TO LEFT
Subject(s): BASEBALL; CHINESE LITERATURE; SPORTS;

Poem Sources:

HUMMERS, KNUCKLERS, AND SLOW CURVES; CONTEMPORARY BASEBALL POEMS.
  JOHNSON, DON (ED.)
  (1991)
 
COLLECTED POEMS: 1953 - 1993.
  UPDIKE, JOHN
  (1995)
 



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