Red Leather Gloves

RED LEATHER GLOVES takes us from the mean streets of the Houston's barrios and dockside boxing stables into a dilapidated boxing arena deceptively named the Olympiad where men and boys reenact an ancient rite of passage in desperate pursuit of Olympic fame, title belts, and riches that will elude them all. Olguin writes within the visceral realism of Philip Levine and the boxing authenticity of F. X. Toole: he zeros in on these working class denizens as they train in the art of the not so sweet science of beating bodies into submission. An amateur boxer in his youth, Olguin dissects the sport with the skill of a cut-man, and his poems burst with the pain and physical toll the sport exacts.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Hansen Publishing Group, LLC
Published: 08/01/2014
ISBN: 9781601820587
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.31lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.23d
Award: Benjamin Franklin Award - Silver Medal Winner