The Bookshelf Conversations: E. Ethelbert Miller

September 28, 2021

There’s a first time for everything.

For example, this is the first time we’ve had a poet on for a Conversation. It’s the same reasoning I have for not doing much fiction on the blog: I just don’t feel qualified to address the genre. My experience with poetry is limited to doggerel like “Casey at the Bat” (and its many variants), limericks, and the “Torah Haikus” I used to write while working for the NJ Jewish News some years back.

So I was a bit intimidated when it came to talking with E. Ethlebert Miller, an accomplished and heralded poet, about his latest collection, When Your Wife Has Tommy John Surgery and Other Baseball Stories: Poems. It is the middle of a trilogy about the national pastime, the first being If God Invented Baseball: Poems with the third due to come out next year. (He also published The 5th Inning (Busboys and Poets) in 2012.) Here’s just a sample of his work from The New York Times.

But my fear was quelled and my vistas were broadened by the easy-going chat with Miller, another member of the Pandemic Baseball Book Club.

 

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