Muhammad Ali In Fighter's Heaven
Published on 19. April 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
128 pages
978-0-09-956443-0 (ISBN)
Description
'The man who has no imagination Stands on earth He has no wings He cannot fly' Muhammad Ali Just off Highway 61 in northern Pennsylvania, up the dirt drive of a wooded hill lay a place called Fighter's Heaven. This was once the training camp of the 'greatest of all times'. From early '73 through the summer of '74 Victor Bockris visited Muhammad Ali, while Ali was preparing for his epic battle in Zaire to regain the World Heavyweight crown from the fearsome George Foreman. Bockris, who was later to write about people like William Burroughs, Andy Warhol and Lou Reed was less interested in his subject's boxing career and ambitions than in his extraordinary gifts as a poet, preacher and performer. As Muhammad Ali said himself of this book, 'These are some of the things I don't reveal to the public too much'.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Cornerstone
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
97 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-09-956443-0 (9780099564430)
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Victor Bockris
Muhammad Ali In Fighter's Heaven
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08/2011
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Victor Bockris has lived in New York City for the past twenty-four years. During that time he has devoted himself to chronicling New York's downtown culture, with an emphasis on the worlds of William Burroughs, Andy Warhol, and punk rock. In March 1994 he was the subject of a profile in Italian Vogue entitled 'Poet of the New York Underground'. His articles have appeared in Interview, People, Elle, Mirabella, The Village Voice, Penthouse and numerous other magazines and newspapers in the United States and around the world. A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant, he is the author of a number of books including:
Lou Reed: The Biography
Keith Richards: The Biography
The Life and Death of Andy Warhol
Uptight: The Velvet Underground Atory
Making Tracks: The Rise of Blondie
With William Burroughs: A Report from the Bunker
Lou Reed: The Biography
Keith Richards: The Biography
The Life and Death of Andy Warhol
Uptight: The Velvet Underground Atory
Making Tracks: The Rise of Blondie
With William Burroughs: A Report from the Bunker