Arrand is masterful at using these poems and visuals to engage with wrestling and unpack deeper examinations of gender, sex, and masculinity. This is a chapbook of poems and comics that are separated into three sections: The Use of Roland Barthes to Justify One’s Love of Wrestling, Wrestling School (with Scott Stripling), and Hold Me Gorilla Monsoon. While there are arresting images of dead wrestlers and name-drops and nods of acknowledgment throughout this book of poetry, even if you have no knowledge of any of the wrestlers, there’s still a thread of a father-son narrative that engrosses you. (Curbside Splendor Publishing/New Michigan Press) Check him out for great donut or track suit recommendations. Oliu is also an incredible Twitter follow. And some that touch on Oliu’s own experiences with his body and chronic pain among other big picture issues. There are interspersed short takes on wrestling moves. Oliu is clearly a long-time wrestling fan but is also deft at contrasting these highlight reel best-of wrestling moments with the intricacies and difficulties of his own life.
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Like trying to find the seam on a singlet.īrian Oliu, Body Drop: Notes on Fandom and Pain in Professional Wrestling It almost feels like the wrestling is beside the point, but it’s so well woven into the narrative that it’s inextricable.
This novel is all voice and drive.īeautifully written, big-hearted novel that’s about so much more than wrestling.
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But his narrator, Stephen Florida, a relentlessly driven wrestler in his final year at a DIV North Dakota college is as intense as any swaggering pro wrestler. Habash’s novel is more headgear-and-ring worm collegiate wrestling and less painted faces and dropkick wrestling. Here are six that put wrestling in a headlock and try to get up close. Far less available are novels, fiction, graphic novels, short stories, poems, and essays that delve less into chronicling and more into understanding. If you Google “wrestling books” or “best books about wrestling” most of them are autobiographies written by former hard-barked brawlers or non-fiction blow-by-blows that are primarily focused on getting down the details for posterity. It’s such a rich environment to mine: over-the-top characters, gaudy costumes, backstabbing, frontstabbing, the works. That there aren’t more books about wrestling is baffling to me.
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