A Miltonic Sonnet about Being Given the Game Ball after a Play in Right Field

About the Book

"If you haven't read poetry since high school, now is the time to start!"
-Richard Alderman
KTRK Channel 13 (ABC Television)

"Beethoven Baseball Buicks [and] Elway . These sonnets enjoy the world!"
-Patricia Yongue
Professor of English, University of Houston

"[E]xtraordinary What fun these poems are!"
-Bryan Garner
Garner's Dictionary of Modern American Usage
(Oxford University Press)

"[These] meticulously crafted sonnets rocket exuberantly from the ancient world to cyberspace, unsettling the mind [and] surprising the heart."
-Carolyn Wilkerson Bell
Susan Duval Anderson Professor of English,
Randolph-Macon Woman's College

About the Author

David Crump is a Professor of Law, an outfielder in the Senior Baseball League, and a guitar player in a country rock band. His past activities reflect a true Renaissance education: he has worked as an aerospace engineer, assistant district attorney, and economist. He has written more than a dozen published books, which range from courtroom-drama novels and children?s poetry to technical coverages of psychology, thermodynamics, and constitutional law. He lives in Houston, where a real event with his team on the baseball field inspired him to begin this unusual collection of sonnets.