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Although the poem was a national institution by 1900, few people knew who the author was. For years a controversy raged in the pages of sports magazines and newspapers about who actually wrote "Casey...
...poem is vintage Tokio Rose: like a slap in the face--stinging-hot but strangely cool. Its power lies in the bowling ball idea. Not really an "image" because it's more tactile than visual, it is a simile so original, massive, and vivid that it forces you to touch what shocks you. The twin holes of the bowling ball suggest the dichotomy between good and evil, sex and love, shit and "shit." The reader senses bitterness and self-recrimination amidst unrepentant profanity...
...poem appears, signed by a graduate of the college, a co-founder of the poetry board now revisiting his brain-child...
...poem Why Should Not Old Men Be Mad?, W.B. Yeats wrote (among other things) about the way that promising lives go wrong. For example: "Some have known a likely lad/ That had a sound fly-fisher's wrist/ Turn to a drunken journalist." Some have indeed. Pete Hamill is still a likely lad, too good to go on indulging the drunken journalist...
Curley shared his own strategy--poetry--andfrom that day on, O'Neill ended every speech witha poem, Walsh said...