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If you've seen my signature line on my posts, you may already know this, but I have a book that was just released yesterday. I'm hesitant to self-promote it too much, but hey, I also want to sell some books.
It's called Revelation: An Apocalypse in Fifty-Eight Fights. It follows the professional fights of Mike Tyson with 100-word prose poems. It combines the voices of the fight game — commentators, journalists, referees, other fighters, and yes Mike Tyson too — with the voice of an Old Testament prophet. Ultimately relating Tyson to a modern-day Elijah — climbing the mountain to do battle, and climbing back down to a world of depression, anxiety, and alienating silence.
You can read excerpts from it here, here, and here.
It is definitely a unique on how we can talk about boxing. And, I hope, one way to share a love of boxing with people who aren't necessarily boxing fans themselves. (My poor editor - he said Google ads has tracked his search history related to the book and now he's bombarded with ads for Everlast and whatnot.)
A lot of time, energy, love, and research (it has like 15 pages of notes!) went into the book. Joyce Carol Oates has praised it, and I think it's pretty good, too. It would mean a lot to me if you'd take a look and consider picking up a copy.
Information on ordering is available on the press's website here. Thank you.
< /shameless self-promotion >
It's called Revelation: An Apocalypse in Fifty-Eight Fights. It follows the professional fights of Mike Tyson with 100-word prose poems. It combines the voices of the fight game — commentators, journalists, referees, other fighters, and yes Mike Tyson too — with the voice of an Old Testament prophet. Ultimately relating Tyson to a modern-day Elijah — climbing the mountain to do battle, and climbing back down to a world of depression, anxiety, and alienating silence.
You can read excerpts from it here, here, and here.
It is definitely a unique on how we can talk about boxing. And, I hope, one way to share a love of boxing with people who aren't necessarily boxing fans themselves. (My poor editor - he said Google ads has tracked his search history related to the book and now he's bombarded with ads for Everlast and whatnot.)
A lot of time, energy, love, and research (it has like 15 pages of notes!) went into the book. Joyce Carol Oates has praised it, and I think it's pretty good, too. It would mean a lot to me if you'd take a look and consider picking up a copy.
Information on ordering is available on the press's website here. Thank you.
< /shameless self-promotion >
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