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Dancing on the Pedals: The Found Poetry of Phil Liggett, The Voice of Cycling | 
 enlarge | Author: Phil Liggett
Creator: Doug Donaldson
Publisher: Breakaway Books
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 237708
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 176
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.3 x 5.5 x 0.6
ISBN: 1891369555
Dewey Decimal Number: 790
EAN: 9781891369551
ASIN: 1891369555
Publication Date: July 1, 2005
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He's dancing on his pedals
In a most immodest way.
-Tour de France, 1989 In the tradition of Phil Rizzuto's O Holy Cow!, this is a lighthearted, ironic arrangement into verse form of Phil Liggett's florid, enthusiastic narrations of cycling's greatest races. Anyone who has ever watched the Tour de France on TV knows Phil, and his flights of rhetorical brilliance are legion. Bicycling Magazine writes, "His voice defines the sport the way Howard Cosell's did for boxing and football." Astonishingly poetic and intelligent, Phil Liggett's narrations lend themselves perfectly to this found poetry approach. Bill Strickland is executive editor of Bicycling Magazine and the author of The Quotable Cyclist.
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Phil Liggett Live January 4, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a great bedside version of Phil at the Tour. You can hear his voice as you read his "poetry"! Great gift for the Phil/Tour de France fans of the world.
Great find... a book that you will enjoy for yourself or give to a friend. January 4, 2006
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
This was a well researched and written book. A real find that will be around as a classic to the cycling enthusiast.
a very nice dance indeed June 27, 2005
20 out of 20 found this review helpful
This book, a tribute to the dean of Tour de France broadcasters, Phil Liggett, is a genuine find. Donaldson has taken 30 years' worth of Liggett's Tour de France calls and recast them into more than 200 poems of varying lengths. Of course, it doesn't hurt that Liggett himself has a natural gift for rhythm and metaphor, as well as a wide-angle style of commentary that has always made TDF seem so much larger than a mere athletic event. In Liggett's world, and thus Donaldson's poems, cyclists become kings and jokers, conquerors and the conquered, and/or any number of other stages in between. The book's title, by the way, comes from a classic Liggett moment: Watching a cyclist climb a peak during the 1989 event, the broadcaster observed, "He's dancing on the pedals in a most immodest way."
Some of the poems pack a surprising punch in a very few lines, all the more so for anyone who has ever climbed on a bicycle seat for any event requiring endurance. In this category is one titled "Contender": "He is settling in./He is recovering./And he will kick in." Or there's this one, "Inferno," which reminded me of the John Berryman poetry I read in college: "There's our friend/the devil/who's joined us/the past few days." Among the longer poems, I particularly liked "World of Hurt," one of a number of tributes to Greg LeMond. Donaldson also uses typography and phrasing to amplify the meaning and impact of the individual poems. (Check out "Come to Paris." It'll make you smile.) Finally, embedded between the lines of the poems is a succinct history of TDF, sure to evoke nostalgic feelings in any true fan.
Overall, for anyone who's into cycling, sportscasting genius, or poetry itself, Dancing is a very nice read.
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