Getting a Good Read

By P. V. LeForge

Has your ball ever rolled into a woodchuck hole in the middle of the fairway? Or have you wondered why sometimes everything you hit goes left? Or why you can make 10 on a hole that you birdied the day before?

In the tradition of P. G. Wodehouse, John Updike, and George Plimpton, these poems show a reverence for the game of golf and for literary tradition. They are poems for those who have spent cool night hours lying in a sand trap just looking up at the stars, but also for those who spend time wondering how many golf balls it would take to fill the lake just to the right of number 5. They are poems—serious and quirky—of the heart and of the cosmos, written by and for people who know that golf is not just similar to life, but at times is life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Black Bay Books
• Release date: Mar 22, 2011
• ISBN: 9781458103888

P. V. LeForge

P. V. LeForge lives on a horse farm in north Florida with his wife Sara Warner, who is a dressage rider and trainer. Their stable includes Fabayoso, who was Southeastern Regional Stallion Champion, and his colt Freester, who was Reserve Champion USDF Horse of the Year in 2011.LeForge is also an e-book formatter who can be found on Mark's List. He enjoys formatting Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Drama.LeForge's other books of poetry and fiction can be obtained in ebook and paperback at most on-line book outlets. In addition to writing and doing farm chores, he enjoys songwriting and target archery.

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Getting a Good Read

By P. V. LeForge and John Pekins

Copyright 2011 P. V. LeForge and John Pekins

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Section 1: The Front Nine

Surprise (P. V. LeForge)

Poet (John Pekins)

In Quest of the Perfect Tee (P. V. LeForge)

Fences (John Pekins)

Loneliness (P. V. LeForge)

Bag’s Groove (John Pekins

Golf in the Ruins (P. V. LeForge)

The Science of Golf (P. V. LeForge)

Stuck (John Pekins)

Section 2: The Back Nine

Not Golfing, but Camping with the Trail Scouts (John Pekins)

Slow Burn (P. V. LeForge)

Number 11 (John Pekins)

The Mathematics of Number 12 (John Pekins)

Golfing Matilda (P. V. LeForge)

Hotei among the Toads and the Ferrules (John Pekins)

Tanka without Clubs (P. V. LeForge)

Dying at the Hole (P. V. LeForge)

Eighty (John Pekins)

Section 3: And All the Rest

What Goes Left (P. V. LeForge)

In the Zone (P. V. LeForge)

Two Laid Up Poems (John Pekins)

Brand New Driver Blues (P. V. LeForge)

The Gallery (P. V. LeForge)

T Minus (P. V. LeForge)

Every Day Is a Good Day Playing Golf (John Pekins)

Entropy (P. V. LeForge)

Sixteen Once More (John Pekins)

Practice Haiku (P. V. LeForge)

Nineteenth Hole (At Last) (P. V. LeForge)

About the Authors

In Praise of Getting a Good Read

Getting a Good Read

Introduction

Well, yeah, golf poems. We are two poets who enjoy playing golf and when we looked around for poems about our sport, we came up as empty as the cup after our first putt. So we decided to