These are mostly poems by Muhammad Ali, but I have written two tribute poems for him. And I corrected a number of his poems that had been mangled on the Internet.
Ali floated like a butterfly and stung like a bee. But was he a good poet? Or poetry in motion? Here, in these poems, Mike provides a clear and surprising answer to those questions.
I was surprised to find that Ali wrote some good poetry, unless he had a ghostwriter. It did take me some time to clean up the messes people made of his poems. I went back to Ali reciting his poems on TV and corrected the errors by hand.
Ali floated like a butterfly and stung like a bee. But was he a good poet? Or poetry in motion? Here, in these poems, Mike provides a clear and surprising answer to those questions.
I was surprised to find that Ali wrote some good poetry, unless he had a ghostwriter. It did take me some time to clean up the messes people made of his poems. I went back to Ali reciting his poems on TV and corrected the errors by hand.
What a wonderful thing to do! I'm truly delighted that his poems now represent him properly.
It was time well spent, and the page remains popular many years later.
Top boxer/poet gets top editor. It just couldn't fail!
It must have been written in the stars!
Well, let's thank the Great Spirit for that!