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Since Homer, Boxing Has Been Fertile Ground For Poets. The Boxer-as-tragic-hero Archetype Seems To Have Particular Power In The Poems Collected Here; Fatallyy Flawed Champs Like Jack Johnson And Sonny Liston Are Poetic Subjects At Least As Often As Joe Louis And Ali. Late Round / Kim Addonizio -- The Shadowboxer / Ai -- Narrative : Ali / Elizabeth Alexander -- Today's News / Elizabeth Alexander -- Clay Comes Out To Meet Liston / Muhammad Ali -- Fightin' Was Natural / Maya Angelou -- Epitaph -- Hallowed Ground -- I Went Down Last Tuesday Night -- The Kid's Last Fight -- Parody On Part Of Gray's Elegy In A Churchyard -- You Valiant Sons Of Erin's Isle -- A Dream Of The Ring : The Great Jack Johnson / George Barlow -- That's What The Well-dressed Man In Harlem Will Wear / Irving Berlin -- The Boxing Lesson / Richard Broderick -- Crispus Attacks Mckoy / Sterling A. Brown -- Strange Legacies / Sterling A. Brown -- The Loser / Charles Bukowski -- From Letters And Journals / George Gordon, Lord Byron -- September In The Bleachers / Tom Clark -- Each Poem Of Mine / Daniela Crasnaru -- Passing / Jim Daniels -- Moorer Denies Holyfield In Twelve / Olena Kalytiak Davis -- Everywhere The Pacifi

Author

Robert Hedin and Michael Waters

Publisher

Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780809325313

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Short Stories