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  title info:
    title: Pretend the ball is named Jim Crow
    sub title: the story of Josh Gibson : poems
  name:
    name part: Hairston, Dorian
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: kyu
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 104 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: Joshua "Josh" Gibson (1911–1947) is a baseball legend, one of the greatest power hitters in the Negro Leagues, and in all of baseball history. At the height of his career, this trailblazing athlete suffered grueling physical ailments, lost his young wife who died giving birth to their twins and endured years of Jim Crow-era segregation and discrimination, all the while breaking records on the ball field. Dorian Hairston's debut poetry collection explores the Black American experience through the lens of Gibson's life and seventeen-year baseball career, which culminated in his posthumous election to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972. Hairston brilliantly reconstructs the personas of Gibson and others in his orbit whose encounters with white supremacy interweave with the inevitability of losing loved ones. By alternating between the perspectives of Gibson, members of his family and contemporary Black baseball players, Hairston captures the complexity and the pain of living under the oppressive weight of grief and racial discrimination. Emotive, prescient and absorbing, these powerful poems address social change, culture, family, race, death and oppression, while honoring and giving voice to Gibson and a voiceless generation of African Americans.
  note: by Dorian Hairston.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Gibson, Josh
      name part: 1911-1947
    genre: Poetry
  subject:
    topic: Social problems
    genre: Poetry
  subject:
    topic: Baseball
    genre: Poetry
  subject:
    topic: African Americans
    topic: History
    genre: Poetry
  classification: PS3608.A545345 P74 2024
  classification: 811/.6
  identifier: 9780813198873
  identifier: 0813198879
  identifier: 9780813198880
  identifier: 0813198887
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 230331
    record change date: 20250528183408.8
    record identifier: in00004783286