Boys Fight

Boys Fight

In Marina Tëmkina’s poem “Boys Fight,” one finds a taxonomy of masculinity in her inventory of big boys, old boys, mainstream boys, golden boys, and girls who look up to boys—all combative, doing intellectual battle, raging and sparring, and driven. Tëmkina’s lines are paired with the mixed-media drawings of Michel Gérard, which take their cue from an illustration of boxing techniques in the Nouveau Petit Larousse Illustré, a popular and practical French-language encyclopedic dictionary first published in 1905.

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