It's just a game--baseball--an amusement, a marginal thing, not an art, not a consequential metaphor for life, not a public trust.... It may have broken Bart Giamatti's sentimental heart, but it will never break mine.... In its behind-the-scenes machinations as sport, baseball has developed unexpected ties to big-time professional wrestling, with that strange spectacle's buffoonish, self-important, overstuffed Steinbrennerish management types spouting gibberish about the best interests of this and such and the need for moral direction, all in counterpoise to sullenly big-muscled, bad-boy superstars nattering and snuffling about not getting any respect and not being in it for the dough, and being in it for the dough.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At this time in American history, we are like ghosts talking gibberish through different dimensions, and stupid men do not make go...od make good mediums.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The poem goes from the poet's gibberish to The gibberish of the vulgate and back again.... Does it move to and fro or is it of both At once? Is it a luminous flittering Or the concentration of a cloudy day?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »