Home Team - by Edwin Romond (Paperback)

About the Book

Book Synopsis

In Home Team, readers are treated to Edwin Romond's nuanced and eloquent story telling. The poems in this small volume bring us fly balls in summer skies, runners rounding the bases, old-time heroes, fathers and sons, and vivid memories of America's favorite pastime.

Review Quotes

Edwin Romond has a special way of tapping into the places where we keep our deepest memories of joy and pain. Sometimes they involve baseball, and I'm entranced by the ways baseball transports him, and me, to childhood and neighborhood, where kids chase fly balls in the street, listen to broadcasts under their covers, love distant men they'll never know, beg exhausted dads for five more minutes of playing catch. For me, it was a long time ago. His words put me there again.

--Bill White, Columnist, The Morning Call

I read Home Team with the relish of a fan pouring over the line-up card at every home opener in the universe. From the Blue Mountain League to the House That Ruth Built, we see America's pastime through the eyes of a child and a father, in all its majesty and nuance, anticipating a squeeze or a slide, and "whatever's left after the final out."

--Tom Plante, Editor of Exit 13 Magazine

From the grass growing in far left field to the runner rounding third and headed for home, the lines never falter, the images run true, and...it is no stretch at all to hear the angels cheer "from the upper deck / of baseball's summer sky."

--Phebe Davidson, Contributing Editor, Tar River Poetry