Bring me the Sweat of Gabriela Sabatini - Clive james
Bring me the sweat of Gabriela Sabatini. In the beginning there was Gorgeous Gussie Moran And even when there was just her it was tough enough, But by now the top hundred boasts at least a dozen knockouts Who make it difficult to keep one’s tongue From lolling like a broken roller blind. Out of deference to Billy-Jean I did my best
Bring me the sweat of Gabriela Sabatini - London Review of Books
Sep 17, 1987 · Bring me the sweat of Gabriela Sabatini. In the beginning there was Gorgeous Gussie Moran And even when there was just her it was tough enough, But by now the top hundred boasts at least a dozen knock-outs Who make it difficult to keep one’s tongue From lolling like a broken roller blind. Out of deference to Billie-Jean I did my best
Poetry: The Book of my Enemy — Bring me the sweat of Gabriela Sabatini ...
Bring me the sweat of Gabriela Sabatini. In the beginning there was Gorgeous Gussie Moran And even when there was just her it was tough enough, But by now the top hundred boasts at least a dozen knockouts Who make it difficult to keep one’s tongue From lolling like a broken roller blind. Out of deference to Billie-Jean I did my best
A Poet Pines, Charms In 'Opal Sunset' - NPR
Oct 2, 2008 · The speaker of "Bring Me the Sweat of Gabriela Sabatini" — a bloke, one surely senses, with tastes none too distant from the poet's own — is a tennis fan no longer able to stifle his "croak...
Sabatini Is No. 1 in Marketplace - Los Angeles Times
Jun 27, 1988 · Figure that entrepreneurial ball boys were selling off her sweat-stained towels for 10 pounds sterling at last year’s Wimbledon, and you have an idea of her aromatic potential.
Bring Me The Sweat of Gabriella Sabatini - ABC Radio National
Dec 25, 2003 · Bring Me The Sweat of Gabriella Sabatini. The story of a young Argentine tennis player who, at the age of 15, made the semi-finals in Paris, then went on to win the US Open as well as the hearts of millions around the world.
Clive James's claim to seriousness - The Telegraph
Nov 2, 2003 · There is an astonishing poem entitled Bring Me the Sweat of Gabriela Sabatini. It is a work which takes in, along with its perspiring heroine, such intimate matters as the socks of Tracey...
GABRIELA – NORTH RIDING PROJECT
Jul 17, 2024 · Bring me the sweat of Gabriela Sabatini. For I know it tastes as pure as Malvern water, Though laced with bright bubbles like the aqua minerale. That melted the kidney stones of Michelangelo. As sunlight the snow in spring. Clive James, “Bring me the Sweat of Gabriela Sabatini” (1-5), clivejames.com
Bring Me the Sweat of Gabriela Sabatini | AustLit: Discover …
Containing over 1000 poems from 170 Australian poets, as well as short critical biographies, this careful reevaluation of Australian poetry makes this a superb book that can be read and enjoyed over a lifetime.' (From the publisher's website.) Sydney : University of New South Wales Press , 2011 anthology poetry.
Bring me the sweat of Gabriela Sabatini - Clive James
Bring me the sweat of Gabriela Sabatini. In the beginning there was Gorgeous Gussie Moran And even when there was just her it was tough enough, But by now the top hundred boasts at least a dozen knockouts Who make it difficult to keep one’s tongue From lolling like a broken roller blind. Out of deference to Billie-Jean I did my best