Shakespeare Bats Cleanup

Shakespeare Bats Cleanup by Ron Koertge

This is a surprising little book. Is it a surprise that it's about baseball? or more surprisingly that it's a novel in verse? Can the two really be compatible? No, has to be No. But that's the surprise how well the two subjects - baseball and poetry, work together (I guess it's no wonder Casey at the Bat is a classic).

So this is the story of Kevin, MVP, first baseman, stuck at home with a bad case of "Monouglyosis" just as baseball season is getting started. He's worried about losing his position on the team to another player, he's worried about what the girls at school are saying about him, he's worried that his friends are forgetting him, he's worried that the memory of his Mom is starting to fade, and he's worried that if his writing poetry will change everything.

here are a few of the poems I really liked.
How do you do, Haiku, Pantoum for Mom, and A Poem for Poetry.
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