Bibliographic record
Abstract
Dwayne Brenna. Stealing Home: Baseball Poems. Regina SK (Canada): Hagios Press, 2013. 103 pp. Paper, $16.95 (us). Known professionally for his work on stage, television, and cinema, Dwayne Brenna should--with this collection of poems celebrating great American pastime--also now be known as a poet and baseball enthusiast. For with this collection of poems, Brenna demonstrates both his deep love and appreciation for game as well as a (largely) nuanced ear for language. Brenna's background in acting likely provided him with one of strengths of this collection, namely an ability write from multiple personae. Although some of these poems, set as they are in Saskatchewan, are likely drawn from personal experience (if not directly biographical), other poems speak with a more universal voice, one that allows reader imagine himself both in poem as well as in game. For anyone who has ridden pine, for instance, Chatter will bring back warm memories of encouraging one's team and trying rattle your opponents. In fact, all of poems in section three (Hard Ball) work bring game life; those who have played will be able relate, and those who have not are given a keen insight into some of game's subtle nuances. Poems like Curve Ball and Split Finger: note but two examples, operate simultaneously as introductions uninitiated the curve's impossibility and pitch that no one hits;' as well as familiar reminders players who have stood in batter's box. However, it's in poems like Knuckleball that Brenna demonstrates his facilities as a poet; spacing his stanzas so that they [dance] like a Broadway chorus girl: Bren-na's poem mimics frustrating beauty of this pitch. In addition his wonderful work exploring details of game, Bren-na's collection also taps into baseball's important work as a cultural marker, a bridge between generations, and bonds we share with others though our participation (particularly father/son bond, a common trope in various baseball books and movies). Cheats: for instance, illuminates a lesson that fathers must give their sons about growing up: learning to cheat when I was twelve, speaker's father puts his arm around his son's shoulders and sagely tells him, The umpire calls game, not you. In a similar vein, WinnWell is a short meditation on loss, and a reminder of various ways we remember our fathers through game of baseball: When fathers die, you lose / a little more of them each day. …
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.381 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".