<%@LANGUAGE="JAVASCRIPT" CODEPAGE="1252"%> A Miltonic Sonnet about Being Given the Game Ball after a Play in Right Field
Please come to these fun events, sponsored by U of H, to celebrate Professor David Crump's unusual new book, A Miltonic Sonnet about Being Given the Game Ball after a Play in Right Field!

Front Cover
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Back Cover

You are invited to the following exciting events, so please come!

Oct. 7: Book Signing by the author, introduction by Judge David Hittner, Barnes & Noble, 3003 Holcombe Blvd. at Buffalo Speedway, Thursday, October 7, 7-8:30 p.m. Pre-publication Celebration for Friends!

Oct. 14: "Sonnets about Law . . . and Baseball," introduction by past Texas State Bar President Lynne Liberato, Home Plate Bar & Grill, 1800 Texas Ave., immediately across from Minute Maid Park (Astros' Home Stadium), Thursday, Oct. 14, 6:30-8:30, sponsored by the University of Houston Law Center! Approved for 1 hour MCLE credit, including .5 hour ethics.

Oct.21: Book Signing by the author, introduction by Judge David Hittner, Borders River Oaks, 3025 Kirby, 7:30-9:00 p.m. Please Come!!!

(In the event you are unable to attend any of these fine events, you can obtain the book for $12.95 from iuniverse.com, barnesandnoble.com, or amazon.com, or from either the Barnes & Noble Store or the Border's Store.)


"If you haven't read poetry since high school, now is the time to start!"
-Richard Alderman
  KTRK Channel 13 (ABC Television)

"Beethoven ... Baseball ... Buicks ...[and] Elway ....These sonnets...enjoy the world!"
-Patricia Yongue
  Professor of English, University of Houston

"[These sonnets are] not only good poetry, they're also provocative commentaries on our society."
-Nancy B. Rapoport
  Law School Dean, University of Houston

"What fun these poems are!"
-Bryan Garner
Garner's Dictionary of Modern American Usage
(Oxford University Press)

"[These] meticulously crafted sonnets rocket exuberantly from the ancient world to cyberspace, unsettling the mind...[and] suprising the heart."
-Carolyn Wilkerson Bell
Susan Duval Anderson Professor of English,
Randolph-Macon Woman's College

"This collection is a fun romp through an active, eclectic imagination."
-Dr. Ken Jones
  Poet, The Art Institute

"[These poems] prove that a traditionally high-brow art form like the sonnet can appeal even to a a guy like me....Is nothing sacred anymore?"
-Gary Taylor
  Pulitzer Proze Nominee

"The guy is a great baseball fan."
-Craig Callan
  Los Angeles Dodgers