On the Ropes
- Publisher
- Coach House Books
- Initial publish date
- Jun 1997
- Category
- Canadian, General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781552450024
- Publish Date
- Jun 1997
- List Price
- $15
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Description
A counter punching radio' text that draws a parallel between a punch-drunk fighter and a macho funky writer in language as spare and sharp as obsidian.
About the author
Michael Barnholden is a writer, historian, editor, translator, publisher, photographer, painter, and poet, living in Roberts Creek, British Columbia.His published titles include After the Horse Doctors: Baseball in Vancouver, Sweet Fuck All, Playing with Pain, Works That Way Because That’s the Way It Works: Collected Poems, Circumstances Alter Photographs: Captain James Peters and the War of 1885, Gabriel Dumont Speaks, Street Stories: 100 Years of Homelessness in Vancouver, Reading the Riot Act: A History of Riots in Vancouver, Writing Class: The Kootenay School of Writing Anthology, and On the Ropes.