The Boxer in the Park

Authors

  • Francis Blessington Northeastern University Author

Keywords:

poetic tribute, boxing imagery, performance and identity, aging and physicality, masculinity and struggle, metaphor of the boxer

Abstract

In this poem written in memory of Norman Mailer, a hooded jogger shadowboxes through a park, battling spirits in the air.

Author Biography

  • Francis Blessington, Northeastern University

    Francis Blessington is the author of nine books and is is a poet, Milton scholar, and fiction writer who teaches at Northeastern University in Boston. He is currently translating Euripides’ Trojan Women.

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Published

2010-09-15

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 1 (2010): Literary Warriors

Section

Creative Works

How to Cite

Blessington, Francis. “The Boxer in the Park”. The Mailer Review, vol. 4, no. 1, Sept. 2010, p. 541, https://mailerreview.org/journal/article/view/285.