[E-BOOK] Perfect in Their Art: Poems on Boxing from Homer to Ali
| #342239 in Books | Southern Illinois University Press | 2003-11-25 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x.63 x5.50l, | File Name: 0809325314 | 248 pages |
||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Eclectic, Primal, Smart... Wonderful!|By Michael Meyerhofer|Reading this book--an anthology of poems about or including boxing, written and passed down through the ages--one wonders why this book isn't already gracing the bookshelves of every poetry-lover in America! The energy and variety of these poems go very well with their subject matter. I also love how the nature of th|From Booklist|Does boxing poetry get any better than Cassius Clay promising the crowd "a total eclipse of the Sonny"? Well, yes, although that line is one of the highlights in this fine anthology. Since Ho
Two combatants, one ring, and a battle governed as much by determination and drive as by rules and referees: that’s boxing. Perfect in Their Art: Poems on Boxing from Homer to Ali spans the millennia to present more than one hundred of the finest in pugilism poetry from both oral and written traditions, celebrating the lasting literary, historical, and cultural significance of boxing’s storied heritage.
Editors Robert H...
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