Author: Robert Hedin
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809325306
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
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.