Bibliograph

Fighting is like a wife, poems, Eloisa Amezcua

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Fighting is like a wife, poems, Eloisa Amezcua

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

poetry

Main title

Fighting is like a wife

Responsibility statement

Eloisa Amezcua

Sub title

poems

Summary

"Bobby took to fighting the way a surfer takes to water: the waves and crests, the highs and the pummeling lows. Valorie, as girlfriend, then wife, then mother of their children, was proud of Bobby and how he found a way out of the harsh world they were born into. But the brain-sloshing blows, the women, and the alcohol began to take their toll, and soon Bobby couldn't hear her anymore. With her fate affixed to Bobby's, and Bobby's to the ring, Valorie sought her own way out of this dilemma. Using haunting, visceral language to evoke the emotion of the fight, and incorporating direct quotations from sports commentators and Bobby himself, Fighting Is Like a Wife reveals how boxing, like love and poetry, can be brutal, vulnerable, and surprising"--, Provided by publisher

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