Red Leather Gloves

Red Leather Gloves Takes Us From The Mean Streets Of The Houston's Barrios And Dockside Boxing Stables Into ADilapidated 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 AllOlguín Writes Within The Visceral Realism Of Philip Levine And The Boxing Authenticity Of FXToole: He Zeros In On These Working Class Denizens As They Train In The Art Of The Not So Sweet Science Of Beating Bodies Into SubmissionAn Amateur Boxer In His Youth, Olguín Dissects The Sport With The Skill Of ACutman, And His Poems Burst With The Pain And Physical Toll The Sport Exacts.
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