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Fighting is like a wife, poems, Eloisa Amezcua

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poetry

Fighting is like a wife

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Eloisa Amezcua

poems

"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

Machine generated contents note:, Tale of the Tape, Excerpts from a Post-Fight Interview: Bobby Chacon Lives for Tomorrow, Round 1, Valorie, Good Game of Catch, Round 2, Trouble, Valorie, Blood, Round 3, Valorie, Fighting Is Like a Wife, Round 4, Valorie, The Money, Valorie, We're Hoping, Round 5, Valorie, Some Fine Way to End a Crash Diet, Round 6: A Lot of Play on the Face of Bobby Chacon, Valorie, Round 7, Bobby v Valorie, Round 8, The Facts, Round 9: Addicted, Valorie, I Suppose She Thought I Had Something Going on the Side, Round 10, It Was Just an Opening, Round 11, She Said, He Said, In the Old Days, Round 12, Predicament, Valorie, The Facts, Valorie, Valorie, She Wanted Love, Valorie, Round 13, Valorie, They Told Me, Valorie, My Wife Died, Because I Wouldn't Quit, Valorie, Round 14, Valorie, [Retired], Valorie, Round 15, Valorie, Defense, Valorie, Although There Could Always Be Hector Camacho, Valorie, Punch-Drunk

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