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Tables of Contents for Perfect in Their Art
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
xv
Budd Schulberg
Introduction
xix
Late Round
1
1
Kim Addonizio
The Shadowboxes
2
13
Ai
Narrative: Ali
Elizabeth Alexander
Today's News
15
1
Elizabeth Alexander
Clay Comes Out to Meet Liston
16
2
Muhammad Ali
Recited by Cassius Clay
Written by Gary Belkin
Fightin' Was Natural
18
1
Maya Angelou
Epitaph
19
1
Anonymous
Hallowed Ground
20
1
Anonymous
I Went Down Last Tuesday Night
21
1
Anonymous
The Kid's Last Fight
22
4
Anonymous
Parody on Part of Gray's "Elegy in a Churchyard"
26
2
Anonymous
You Valiant Sons of Erin's Isle
28
1
Anonymous
A Dream of the Ring: The Great Jack Johnson
29
1
George Barlow
That's What the Well-Dressed Man in Harlem Will Wear
30
1
Irving Berlin
The Boxing Lesson
31
1
Richard Broderick
Crispus Attacks McKoy
32
4
Sterling A. Brown
Strange Legacies
36
2
Sterling A. Brown
the loser
38
1
Charles Bukowski
From Letters and journals
39
2
George Gordon, Lord Byron
September in the Bleachers
41
1
Tom Clark
Each Poem of Mine
42
1
Danida Crdsnaru
Passing
43
2
Jim Daniels
Moorer Denies Holyfield in Twelve
45
1
Olena Kalytiak Davis
Everywhere the Pacific
46
2
Wayne Dodd
Boxing
48
3
Page Dougherty
Bendys Sermon
51
3
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Boxing Towards My Birth
54
1
Jack Driscoll
Pornography
55
3
Joseph Dueroer
On Hurricane Jackson
58
2
Alan Dugan
My Father's Fights S
S9
Stuart Dybek
Hurricane
60
4
Bob Dylan and Jacques Levy
Jack Johnson Does the Eagle Rock
64
1
Cornelius Eady
The Feats of Prime Jack Randall, O!
65
2
Pierce Egan
The Man Who Beat Hemingway
67
2
Martín Espada
Bus Depot Reunion
69
2
David Allan Evans
Shadow Boxer
71
1
David Evans Jr.
Fists
72
1
Richard Foerster
Boxing
73
1
Richard Frost
Champ Joe Louis
74
1
"Little Bill" Gaither
A Fighter Learns of Hands
75
1
Charles Ghigna
Dempsey, Dempsey
76
2
Horace Gregory
British Lads and Black Millers
78
1
Bob Gregson
Fighting
79
1
Donald Hall
Buck
80
3
Michael S. Harper
Homage to the Brown Bomber
83
2
Michael S. Harper
Free Fantasia: Tiger Flowers
85
2
Robert Hayden
A Ballad of the Life and Times of Joe Louis: The Great Brown Bomber
87
10
Calvin Hernton
KO
97
1
William Heyen
Relics
98
1
John Hildebidle
From The Iliad: Boxing at the Funeral Games of Patroklas
99
2
Homer
Joe Louis
101
1
Langston Hughes
To Be Somebody
102
1
Langston Hughes
The Boxing Match
103
1
David Ignatow
The Man Who Boxes
104
3
Ana Istarú
Winner Joe (The Knock-Out King)
107
2
Lil Johnson
A Referee Toasts the Champion
109
1
Billy Jordan
The Boxers Embrace
110
2
Richard Katrovas
Owed to Joe Louis
112
1
John Kieran
The House of Blue Light
113
5
David Kirby
Boxing Day
118
2
Yusef Komunyakaa
Titanic
120
1
Leadbelly
After His Athletic Father's Death
121
1
Charles Levendosky
Baby Villon
122
1
Philip Levine
The Right Cross
123
4
Philip Levine
Shadow Boxing
127
1
Philip Levine
To a Fighter Killed in the Ring
128
2
Lou Lipsitz
Epigrams
130
2
Lucilius
The Time Is Two, Not Three
132
2
Norman Mailer
From The Setup
134
1
Joseph Moncure March
Joe Louis Blues
135
1
Carl Martin
From The Everlasting Mercy: Wood Top Fields
136
3
John Masefield
Fist Fighter
139
3
Dan Masterson
He's in the Ring
142
1
Memphis Minnie McCoy
The Nonpareil's Grave
143
2
M.J. McMahon
Sonny Liston
145
1
Jay Meek
The Seventh Round
146
1
James Merrill
Sonny Liston
147
1
E. Ethelbert Miller
Irises at Ringside
148
1
John Minczeski
Undefeated Heavyweight, 20 Years Old
149
1
Joyce Carol Oates
"Angel Firpo" Waltz
150
3
Salomon Pacorah
Boxers Hit Harder When Women Are Around
153
1
Kenneth Patchen
I Corinthians 9:25-27
154
1
St. Paul
To Let Go
155
1
Michael Pettit
Olympia 7
156
4
Pindar
Olympia II
160
1
Pindar
Joe Louis Is the Man
161
1
Joe Pullum
Petite Kid Everett
162
2
Ishmael Reed
White Hope
164
1
Ishmael Reed
None but Himself Can Be His Parallel
165
1
John Reynolds
No, No
166
1
Yannis Ritsos
Dead Shepherd's Hut
167
2
Don Schofield
Steel Chin
169
1
Peter Serchuk
The Boxer
170
2
Paul Simon
Closed-Head Wounds
172
1
Jeffrey Skinner
Knockout
173
1
John Skoyles
Men Versus Men
174
2
John Skoyles
Sonny Liston
176
1
John Skovles
Alphabet for the Fancy
177
1
Charles Sloman
Confessions of a Licensed Professional Boxing Judge
178
1
Claude Clayton Smith
Blues for Benny "Kid" Paret
179
2
Dave Smith
Championship Fight
181
2
Dave Smith
Muhammad Ali at Ringside, 1985
183
3
Wole Soyinka
Joe Louis
186
2
David Spicer
Monster
188
1
David Steingass
Cuban Bon Bon
189
2
Virgil Suárez
Poetry Reading
191
1
Wislawa Szymborska
Shadowboxing
192
1
James Tate
The Fight of Sayerius and Heenanus
193
4
William Makepeace Thackeray
The Gym on Tchoupitoulas Street
197
2
Eric Trethewey
In the Louisiana State Prison at Angola
199
2
Eric Trethewey
Amateur Fighter
201
1
Natasha Trethewey
Liston
202
1
William Trowbridge
Queer Street
203
1
William Trowbridge
From The Aeneid The Boxing Match
204
2
Virgil
Punch-Drunk
206
1
Michael Waters
Boxing Lesson
207
1
Charles Harper Webb
King Joe (Joe Louis Blues)
208
2
Richard Wright
Boom Boom Mancini
210
2
Warren Zevon
Suck It Up
212
3
Paul Zimmer
Acknowledgments
215