point of contact

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Point of Contact
A Publication on the Verbal and Visual Arts

Cover Art: Liliana Porter

2004
Point of Contact: On Sports, Vol. 7, No. 1-2

INCLUDES DVD: SOARING, VIDEO BY JUAN MANDELBAUM
Paper $15.00 | ISBN 0-9722586-6-3

"To write, to talk about sports... Is there a neutral ground to meet the subject? Is there a way out of the usual sort of journalistic remora? This new edition of Point of Contact presents a contemporary ideological discussion: sports beyond modernity. Because as is the case with art and literature, to cite only two examples, sports have redefined the classic ideal of sensuality, honor, truth..."
Pedro Cuperman
Excerpt from an introduction to Poetry and Sports
A Conversation with Mary Karr and Bruce Smith
Point of Contact: On Sports, Page 3.

Conversations:
On Poetry and Sports, with Mary Karr, Bruce Smith and Pedro Cuperman
On Syracuse University Basketball: The NCAA Championship, with Jim Boeheim
On Caribbean Baseball, with Roberto González Echevarría
On Football and the media, with Tim Green
On Lacrosse, with Oren Lyons and Roy Simmons
On Wrestling, with Barry Norman and Sid Vicious
On béisbol in Puerto Rico, with Tere and Reinaldo Paniagua

Feature Articles by:
Mario Diament, on Diego Maradona and the Gol of the Century
Tom Friedmann, on Baseball's Sign Language
John Gerdy, on Sports and Academia
Sander L. Gilman, on Fat Ballplayers and the Bodies of Fat Men
Nicasio Silverio, on Sports Semiotics
Peter Wollen, on Quidditch

Art Projects by:
• Roy Bautista • Alberto Lastreto
• Juan Mandelbaum • Priscilla Monge
• Liliana Porter • Regina Silveira

Contributor's Bios