The Boxer

Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-1-971559-07-0
Verlag: ERIS

Buch, Englisch, 72 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 130 mm x 229 mm

In The Boxer, Gabriele Tinti returns to the ancient bronze known as the Boxer at Rest, 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.

Tinti’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.

This 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tinti, Gabriele

Weitere Mitwirkende

Graham, David

Benson, Nicholas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Über Autor(innen)

Tinti, Gabriele
Gabriele Tinti is an Italian poet and writer. He has worked with the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the British Museum (among many other institutions), and his poems have been performed by actors including Abel Ferrara, Willem Dafoe, and Kevin Spacey. His work is focused on the theme of death and suffering and is mostly composed in the form of ekphrastic and epigrammatic poetry. In 2018 his ekphrastic poetry project Ruins was awarded the Premio Montale with a ceremony at the Museo Nazionale Romano in Palazzo Altemps.

Graham, David
David Graham lives in Venice and has been translating from Italian to English for almost thirty years. He specialises in art, including art criticism, mainly for exhibition catalogues. He has translated guide books for almost all of Venice’s museums and art galleries, and for some years also the catalogues for the Venice Art/Architecture Biennale. His more recent work has included several major publications for the Vatican Museums. He also likes to dabble in poetry from time to time.

Gabriele Tinti is an Italian Poet whose work engages directly with classical antiquity, often composed for performance in museums and archaeological sites. His texts have been read by actors including Kevin Spacey, Willem Dafoe, and Abel Ferrara at institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the British Museum. His poetry is marked by its austerity, physicality, and sustained dialogue with ancient art.

David Graham is a translator working from Italian into English. He translates catalogues for art exhibitions and museums, including the Venice Biennale and the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, and also works with poetry. He grew up in New Zealand and moved to Europe in 1982. He lives in Venice.

Nicholas Benson is a translator working from Italian into English. His translations include Attilio Bertolucci’s Winter Journey; Aldo Palazzeschi’s The Arsonist, for which he received an NEA Translation Fellowship; and, with Elena Coda, Scipio Slataper’s My Karst and My City, which received the 2022 John Florio Prize from the Society of Authors (UK).