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Full Court: 

A Literary Anthology of Basketball

by Dennis Trudell

 (Poems in the anthology are noted with asterisks, short stories without)

Introduction  —  Dennis Trudell
At Center  —  Jonathan Penner
*Backboard and Hoop  —  Rodney Torreson
*First Cut  —  Jack Ridl
The Body Politic  —  Theodore Weesner
*Charge  —  Christopher Gilbert
*Lowell High  —  Tom Meschery
  Familiar Games  —  Jonathan Baumbach
  *To Throw Like a Boy  —  Nancy Boutilier
  *The Touch  —  Justin Mitcham
  Horse  —  Ann Packer
  *A Basketball Game at Newburg Middle School   —  Aleda Shirley
  *Slam, Dunk, & Hook   —  Yusef Komunyakaa
  El Diablo de la Cienega   —  Geoffrey Becker
  *Basketball  —  Louis Jenkins
 *Dushay's Friend  —  Dennis Trudell
  State Champions  —  Bobbie Ann Mason
  *Basketball Player  —  Leonard Michaels
  *Beyond the Chain-Link Fence   —  Sean Thomas Dougherty
  The Blood Blister   —  Willie Morris
  *At the High School Basketball Championship Game   —  Barbara Murphy
  *For Brothers Everywhere   —  Tim Seibles 
  Posting-Up  —  Stephanie Grant
*Rebounding  —  Ronald Wallace
*The Leap  —  Cliff Dweller
Hoop  —  John Sayles
*Anthem  —  Stephen Vincent
*The Man with the Perfect Jump Shot  —  Corey Mesler
The Only Traffic Signal on the Reservation Doesn't Flash Red Anymore  —  Sherman Alexie
*The Only Game  —  Carl Lindner
*Fast Break  —  Edward Hirsch
The Ultimatum of Hattie Tatum   —  Dick Wimmer
*In Memory of the Utah Stars  —   William Matthews
*Cheap Seats in the Kingdome   —    Sharon Bryan
Rookie   —  Robert T. Sorrells
*Fingers   —  Gary Gildner
*One on One   —  Tony Gloeggler
Open Man   —  Bob Levin
*The Poet Tries to Turn in His Jock  —   David Hilton
*The Poet's Dream the Night After His Son Scores 36 in a Little Dribblers Game   —  Richard Blessing
Whistle and the Heroes   —  Herbert Wilner
*Last Shot   —  Jon Veinberg
*A Poem for "Magic"   —  Quincy Troupe
From Downtown at the Buzzer   —  George Alec Effinger
*New World in the Morning   —  Norman German
*Basketball in the Year 2020   —  Therese Becker
Breathing on the Third Stroke   —  Pete Fromm
*The Jump Shooter   —  Dennis Trudell
*Playing Basketball with the Viet Cong   —  Kevin Bowen
The All-American's Wife   —  Ernest J. Finney
*In the Room of My Dying Father  —  Marie Henry
*Crisis on Toast   —  Sherman Alexie
Top of the Game  —  John McCluskey, Jr.
*Ex-Basketball Player  —  John Updike
*Night Gym  —  Jack Ridl
Doc's Story  —  John Edgar Wideman