Perfect in Their Art
Subtitle: Poems on Boxing from Homer to Ali
Contributors: Bud Schulberg (Foreword); Robert Hedin (Editor); Michael George Waters (Editor)
Edition: 1st Edition edition
Publisher: Southern Illinois University
Published: November 25, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780809325313
Subjects: Boxing; Poetry texts & anthologies; Poetry; Anthologies (multiple authors); Literary Criticism; Sports & Recreation / Boxing; American - General
First sentence: When the fighter slow down, moving towards each other as though underwater, gloves laboring to rise before their faces, each punch followed by a clutch when they hold on like exhausted lovers, I think of us in the last months, and of the night you stood in my kitchen, drunk, throwing wild combinations at the air, at something between us would not go down.