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Overview"If he hadn't fouled out, maybe Washington State's center, James McKean, might have held Lew Alcindor to only forty points. It was 1967, a transition year for college athletics in a dramatic time for those coming of age. In this memoir set in the fifties and sixties, McKean revisits his years growing up in a family dedicated to sports and the outdoors, his playing basketball at Washington State University for coaches Marv Harshman and Jud Heathcote, and his fashioning a life during and after basketball. Driven by the energy and spirit of athletics, the language in Home Stand lights up McKean's wonderfully odd work - the aunt who won a bronze medal in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, his last run as a misguided drag racer, his playing basketball for a washing machine factory in Bologna, Italy, or against the prisoners in Walla Walla State Penitentiary - all seen in the context of turbulent times. Needless to say, Lew Alcindor scored his points and UCLA won, which they did every game that season. What James McKean took home was five fouls and a good story. Home Stand delivers a lyrical, thoughtful reflection of what it is to be an athlete - inside as well as outside the game - and how one man's love of basketball evolved into a love of poetry, ""good turns of speech,"" writing, and teaching." Full Product DetailsAuthor: James McKeanPublisher: Michigan State University Press Imprint: Michigan State University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.500kg ISBN: 9780870137495ISBN 10: 0870137492 Pages: 196 Publication Date: 31 March 2005 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviews"""Home Stand is that rare achievement, a multi-generational sports memoir that actually takes us into the zone where ball becomes thought, becomes poetry itself in all its wit and force, its accumulating motion. McKean stakes his place out there is the line of fire and, against the odds, nails it, each story more personal, more tellingly banked than the last. In the process he reveals the unwritten sporting lives of mid-sixties working-class America in all their singularity and turbulence.""" Home Stand is that rare achievement, a multi-generational sports memoir that actually takes us into the zone where ball becomes thought, becomes poetry itself in all its wit and force, its accumulating motion. McKean stakes his place out there is the line of fire and, against the odds, nails it, each story more personal, more tellingly banked than the last. In the process he reveals the unwritten sporting lives of mid-sixties working-class America in all their singularity and turbulence. Author InformationJames McKean was born and raised in the Seattle-Tacoma area. As an undergraduate, he played basketball for the Washington State Cougars, starting at center from 1965 to 1968 in what was then the PAC 8 conference. At the University of Iowa, he completed an MFA and a Ph.D. in English. He has published two collections of poetry: Heading (New Writer Award from Great Lakes Colleges Association) and Tree of Heaven (Iowa Poetry Award). McKean now teaches creative writing and American literature at Mount Mercy College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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