I still wanted to fight, we trained for 12 rounds and we were going to get stronger as the rounds went on. I ’m sorry for him. It’s unfortunate he could n’t continue the fight.

Charles Martin

Charles Martin is a poet, critic and translator. He grew up in the Bronx. He graduated from Fordham University and received his Ph.D. from the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. He now teaches at the City University of New York, Syracuse University, and the Stonecoast MFA Program at the University of Southern Maine. Martin's specialty is Latin poetry. Martin is also a New Formalist, and was an original faculty member of the West Chester University Conference on Form and Narrative in Poetry.

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