Thursday, September 27, 2007

Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio by James Wright

Teaching intro workshops, I read a lot of bad poems about football. This is a good one.


Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio

In the Shreve High football stadium,
I think of Polacks nursing long beers in Tiltonsville,
And gray faces of Negroes in the blast furnace at Benwood,
And the ruptured night watchman of Wheeling Steel,
Dreaming of heroes.

All the proud fathers are ashamed to go home.
Their women cluck like starved pullets,
Dying for love.

Therefore,
Their sons grow suicidally beautiful
At the beginning of October,
And gallop terribly against each other's bodies.



James Wright was born in Martins Ferry, Ohio, on December 13, 1927. His father worked for fifty years at a glass factory, and his mother left school at fourteen to work in a laundry; neither attended school beyond the eighth grade. In 1972, his Collected Poems received the Pulitzer Prize in poetry. He died in New York City in 1980.

6 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

John--I am not even kidding; if you ever run across a GOOD poem about football, please send it my way. Part of what I'm trying to do is get kids to like poetry, and letting them read poems about things they like (other than getting high and having sex) is a good way to do it.

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

For anyone growing up in the Ohio Valley - the Valley that threatens to die so often - this is a remarkable poen that simply portays life in the Ohio Valley. It's incredible that this exists and isn't better recognized or awarded for capturing life as it was, or might still be....

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