Cutoff, The

By Jay Rogoff

1994 Washington Prize winner

Part Odysseus, part Dante, a minor league baseball outfielder turns 30, becomes a father, and ponders his future. A sequence of lyrical monologues, this book is a love story: man/woman, baseball, country Cover art by Lance Richbourg, “George Bell” oil on canvas, 72″ X 30″ from the collection of Peter John Goulandris.