hitting pine cones
with his thin bat
the boy dreams
of home runs, fame,
the world beyond pines
Edward J. Rielly
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
使用他的細球棒
打擊松果
男孩的夢想
是全壘打，成名，
松樹之外的世界
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
使用他的细球棒
打击松果
男孩的梦想
是全垒打，成名，
松树之外的世界
Bio Sketch
Edward J. Rielly is a professor emeritus and former director of the Writing and Publishing program at Saint Joseph's College of Maine. He is the author or editor of approximately thirty books, most recently, Answers Instead (recipient of the Mildred Kanterman Memorial Award from the Haiku Society of America).
Edward J. Rielly is a professor emeritus and former director of the Writing and Publishing program at Saint Joseph's College of Maine. He is the author or editor of approximately thirty books, most recently, Answers Instead (recipient of the Mildred Kanterman Memorial Award from the Haiku Society of America).
Edward's baseball tanka effectively builds, line by line, to a thematically and emotionally powerful ending that reveals the theme of a dream path to the outside world. This "Baseball and the American Dream/Myth" is particularity alluring to young people in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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