{"id":3042,"date":"2010-02-02T17:24:51","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T22:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=3042"},"modified":"2010-02-02T17:24:51","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T22:24:51","slug":"3042","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/3042\/","title":{"rendered":"Fee Dawson's Great Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Back from Chicago, and from a day of teaching at Albany, and maybe it was the coffee while driving back, or the hours of doing taxes after that, but woke up after one hour of sleep at 2:30 with acute insomnia. Used it to reread a book that had just arrived in the mail: Fielding Dawson\u2019s 1973 classic A Great Day for a Ball Game<\/em>, just reissued by David Wilk\u2019s RVIVE Books<\/a>. Wow! Dawson\u2019s writing is indeed just as breathtaking as I remember it. Here\u2019s the one prose writer who realized Olson\u2019s sense of \u201cprojective\u201d and of the \u201cform is only an extension of content\u201d precept, though Dawson\u2019s domain was as much the inside real (the psychological) as the outsidereal (the street, the ballgame, the kid, the woman). The sheer pleasure of the sentences, the breath pauses, the stammerings, the disjunctive punctuation, creative a profoundly subjective mode of moving along, ahead or sideways, probably as far away from the \u201cnew sentence\u201d as could be imagined. But what pleasure! Clearly I am going to need to get the rest of my boxes of prose books out of storage & get the 20-some Fielding Dawson volumes back up in reach on the shelves. And, by the way, it\u2019s a bare two months until spring training begins \u2014 for me, in fact, on March 2nd, when the Mets play the Braves, & I\u2019ll offer a libationary sacrifice to Ernie Banks and Fee Dawson. Meanwhile, if you haven\u2019t read any Dawson yet, get this book \u2014 a major treat!<\/p>\n

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