Bodies Built for Game: The Prairie Schooner Anthology of Contemporary Sports Writing
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- In Defense of Allen Iverson -- Bolting into Throat -- last summer of innocence -- American Pharoah -- Takes Enemy -- Professional Wrestling Holds -- He takes me -- The Hit Man -- Psych Ward Visitation Hour -- The Wars -- After Simone Manuel's Olympic Victory in the Women's 100m Freestyle -- In the outfield, daydreaming -- The Meaning of Serena Williams -- Serena Williams Walks -- Boxing Out -- Summertime -- Aaron Hernandez is my brother -- The Church of Michael Jordan -- Built For It -- Federer as Irreligious Experience -- prayer when knees give -- Days of '95 II -- Baseball -- To Prevent Hypothermia -- Give and Go -- Perfect Form -- Black Boxers -- The Cock Fight Place -- A Note on Process -- How Are You Feeling -- The Wrestler -- War Training -- A Boy & -- His Mother Play Dead at Dawn -- As If We Were Called -- Run -- From Heaven, My Father Sends His Regrets -- Russian Sport -- Feel for the Water -- I reckon, a latitude -- A Perfect Game -- Dennis -- At Eighty-Two My Father Is Learning to Walk Again -- Clank -- Liquid -- Losing the 440-Yard Dash -- Sports Analogy -- Why to Run Racks -- El Barril -- Who Got This Far -- Project Artifacts -- La Llorona Runs Alone -- Alone in the Schoolyard at Dusk -- why i can't play basketball anymore -- The Condition of Being a Sports Fan -- Take Me Out -- Parking Lot Poem with Fernando Valenzuela -- Strike Indicator -- Minor League Legend -- Losing to the Invisible -- High School Yoga -- Southpaw Skin the Gloves -- Playbook -- Games -- Mudita World Peace -- At the gym, moments after I failed a squat attempt that would have been easy pre-sitting-induced pinched nerve -- Inside the City Walls -- Diana Nyad as J. M. W. Turner -- game recognizes game -- Off Sides -- The Chain -- Young Woman Wrestler -- Self-Portrait with Ghost, Rising.