Fall Ball poetry for the late innings by Alan Harris

In “Fall Ball,” Alan Harris captures the long shadows that lie across the field of lives well-lived. In his own voice and others, including those of hospice patients in their final days, these poems—with unadorned grace, great attention, and humor, eke out the sweetness of the late day light. Filled with longing, though plain-spoken and pure, Harris’s poems are unflinching and honest in their quest to locate—beyond our losses, beyond fear, beyond our failing health—a core, which these poems proclaim—is love: enduring and imperishable. Savor these poems and all the life in them.”

–Robert Fanning, poet and author of Severance, Our Sudden Museum, American Prophet, and The Seed Thieves 

Alan Harris‘ new book Fall Ball: Poetry in the Late Innings is an amazing, heartfelt book of finely crafted poems that are both a treasure and a blessing for all readers. This beautiful collection of poems allows us all the necessary time to contemplate our humanity and who we are and who we once were.  This is the real stuff!

–M. L. Liebler, Detroit poet & editor of I Want To Be Once, Heaven Was Detroit and I Just Wanna Testify: Poems About Detroit Music.