World Literature Today, January 1st, 2000
M. T. Kelly. Save Me, Joe Lewis. Toronto. Stoddart. 1998. 214 pages. Can$27.95. isbn 0-7737-3124-5.
Muhammad Ali is the problem. I go back a long way with him, back to the early sixties and one of his first professional fights that I watched on television, his hands and feet flashing in lightweight time through heavyweight space, the words spraying from his mouth in the post-fight interview like sweat over scuffed canvas, a chiaroscuro self-portrait that I sensed even then the impresarios and gamblers could never frame. Then there was the Maine event in 1964 with Sonny Liston, and the sneer...
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