Denis Johnson was an American writer who is remembered for his short stories and novels. He won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2007 for Tree of Smoke. It was also a finalist for the Pulitzer that year. His first book was a poetry collection titled The Man Among Seals.
Johnson’s ‘A Poem about Baseballs’ delves into life’s unpredictability and fear of failure through the lens of a baseball game’s suspense.
for years the scenes bustled
through him as he dreamed he was
alive. then he felt real, and slammed
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