{"product_id":"the-boxer-by-gabriele-tinti-9781971559070","title":"The Boxer","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Boxer\u003c\/i\u003e, Gabriele Tinti returns to the ancient bronze known as the \u003ci\u003eBoxer at Rest\u003c\/i\u003e, a figure seated, battered, unvanquished, and draws from it a sequence of poems as spare and unrelenting as the object itself. These are not elegies for victory, but meditations on endurance, on the dignity of damage, on the silence after violence and the long life of the defeated body.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTinti’s lines are cut to the bone. Refusing ornament and consolation alike, they inhabit a world in which strength is indistinguishable from suffering, and survival itself becomes a form of defiance. Across these pages, antiquity is not revived but confronted, its beauty inseparable from brutality, its heroes stripped of myth and left with only their wounds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis edition presents the poems in Italian and English, allowing the full weight and cadence of Tinti’s language to resonate across both. What emerges is a work of rare severity and clarity, a book that does not describe the boxer, but becomes him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48038512263404,"sku":"9781971559070","price":19.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781971559070-the-boxer.jpg?v=1785393298","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-boxer-by-gabriele-tinti-9781971559070","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}