‘THE BALL DREAMS OF THE SKY’

Holocaust Museum LA presents a book talk with author, filmmaker and 2G (second generation) survivor Henry Schipper about his autobiographical book of baseball poems,” The Ball Dreams of the Sky."

In this imaginative book of autobiographical poems that translates life—all nine innings—into the language and metaphor of the game, Schipper covers everything from childhood trauma to early stardom, love, sex, creativity, meditation, midlife crisis and God. Noted baseball writer Tim Kurkjian of ESPN called the book, “A walk-off hit for all fans,” and Ira Berkow, the former New York Times sports columnist, says the great poet Robert Frost “would have delighted, as did I, in Henry Schipper’s distinguished collection of baseball poems.”