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Yakich, Professor Mark

 
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Sinopsis

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

When is the "beautiful game" at its most beautiful? How does football function as a lens through which so many view their daily lives? What's right in front of fans that they never see? Football celebrates and scrutinizes the world's most popular sport-from top-tier professionals to children just learning the game.

As an American who began playing football in the 1970s as it gained a foothold in the States, Mark Yakich reflects on his own experiences alongside the sport's social and political implications, its narrative and documentary depictions, and its linguistic idiosyncrasies. Illustrating how football can be at once absolutely vital and "only a game," this book will be surprising and insightful for the casual and diehard fan alike.

Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

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Mark Yakich is Gregory F. Curtin, S.J. Distinguished Professor of English at Loyola University New Orleans, USA, where he is Director of the Center for Editing & Publishing. He is the author of many poetry collections, including Unrelated Individuals Forming a Group Waiting to Cross (2004), The Importance of Peeling Potatoes in Ukraine (2008), and Spiritual Exercises (2019), all from Penguin Books. His unconventional guide to reading and writing poems, Poetry: A Survivor's Guide (2nd Ed., Bloomsbury, 2022), is taught worldwide.

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