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Bodies Built for Game: The Prairie Schooner Anthology of Contemporary Sports Writing

Edited by Natalie Diaz

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Sport has always been central to the movements of both the nation-state andÂ the people who resist that nation-state. Think of the Roman Colosseum, Jesse Owensâ€™s four gold-medal victories in the 1936 Nazi Olympics,Â Kareem Abdul-Jabbarâ€™s protest at the 1968 Olympics, and the fallout Colin Kaepernick suffered as a result of his recentÂ protest on the sidelines of an NFL game.Â SportÂ is a place where the body and the mind are the most dangerous because they are allowed to be unifiedÂ as one energy. Bodies Built for Game brings together poems, essays, and stories that challenge our traditional ideas of sport and question the power structures that athletics enforce. What is it that drives us to athletics? What is it that makes us break our own bodies or the bodies of others as we root for these unnatural and performed victories? Featuring contributions from a diverse group of writers, including Hanif Abdurraqib, Fatimah Asghar, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Louise Erdrich, Toni Jensen, Ada LimÃ“n, Tommy Orange, Claudia Rankine, Danez Smith, and Maya Washington, this book challenges America by questioning its games. Â Â Â