Red Shuttleworth holds degrees from City College of San Francisco, San Francisco State University, and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He has been writing poetry for more than fifty years and has also written short fiction and texts for the theater for decades. Shuttleworth took up boxing while a student at City College of San Francisco in the sixties. He had three amateur bouts, one of which he won by decision. At the age of 75, diagnosed with a heart condition, Shuttleworth began training again to box and now has a 2-0 record, with one win by a first-round knockout and the other win by decision. Both matches were against boxers in their twenties.

The poems in Eclipse of the Sun are at once as hard-hitting as a George Foreman right cross and as intricate as a Bach fugue, which is no mean accomplishment. Red goes the distance in this collection. And then some. Eclipse of the Sun is an American classic." - W.K. (Kip) Stratton, author of Last Red Dirt Embrace and The Wild Bunch

• Have Fists Will Bang, Mackenzie, British ColumbiaNature's CourseThe Dog Knows Winter Is ComingThe Boxer on CanvasPrince George, BC, Canada: Four-Round BoutThe Dog in the CemeteryAgainst the Sky on a RidgeRacing Our SeasonsAll-Night Prince George Waffle House. . .Taking RestPolished Walnut CoffinA Few Flakes of Snow CollapseEvening at Crooked River, BCHurricane, Eddie, Benny, Sonny, and Woody WoodpeckerHurricane JacksonEddie MachenNew York '58. . .Benny Kid Paret Takes Up Residence at an Efficiency HotelThe FarmConstruction Sites. . .Blocked Sidewalks. . .Pedestrian DetoursSometimes You Win. . .BigYou're Dead When They Cut the Gloves OffWatching the Bout on TV, Benny Kid Paret's Two-Year-Old Son Screamed: Papa. . .Papa. . .Papa. . .You the Better Man?Precise Jabs, a Hook to His RibsThree Days Beyond Leotis Martin vs. Sonny BanksWoody WoodpeckerHospital Bed in a Living RoomRon Lyle vs. Muhammed AliCarrying the BaggageSouth. . .A Mile Short of True VegasRoadwork, Six Miles with Ron Lyle in Las Vegas, at the Dunes Golf Course, a Few Days Prior to Lyle's World Championship Bout with Muhammed AliThe WorkhouseLyle vs. Ali, Tenth RoundA Taped Jump Rope Dangles in the Night GymNot a Contender, a JourneymanNight TrainSpokaneFaith, Whirligig, DamnationExtra BlanketUnion City, Tennessee, Six RoundsHoly Mass for Broken HandsFlash a Smile and Keep WalkingEclipse of the SunVisits with JoannaPeppermint Go-Go Ancient DiaryOvergrown MemoryNight Watchman. . .One-Eyed Attack Dog MuttLast Day of SummerSparring in a Cold Showers GymJanuary Roadwork: Watery, Red EyesThe Further DaysAfterlife RoadLow Rounds. . .High-Intensity WorkoutDementia PugilisticaAfter I Die. . .AcknowledgmentsAbout the Author

Red Shuttleworth holds degrees from City College of San Francisco, San Francisco State University, and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He has been writing poetry for more than fifty years and has also written short fiction and texts for the theater for decades. Shuttleworth took up boxing while a student at City College of San Francisco in the sixties. He had three amateur bouts, one of which he won by decision. At the age of 75, diagnosed with a heart condition, Shuttleworth began training again to box and now has a 2-0 record, with one win by a first-round knockout and the other win by decision. Both matches were against boxers in their twenties.

The poems in Eclipse of the Sun are at once as hard-hitting as a George Foreman right cross and as intricate as a Bach fugue, which is no mean accomplishment. Red goes the distance in this collection. And then some. Eclipse of the Sun is an American classic." - W.K. (Kip) Stratton, author of Last Red Dirt Embrace and The Wild Bunch

• Have Fists Will Bang, Mackenzie, British ColumbiaNature's CourseThe Dog Knows Winter Is ComingThe Boxer on CanvasPrince George, BC, Canada: Four-Round BoutThe Dog in the CemeteryAgainst the Sky on a RidgeRacing Our SeasonsAll-Night Prince George Waffle House. . .Taking RestPolished Walnut CoffinA Few Flakes of Snow CollapseEvening at Crooked River, BCHurricane, Eddie, Benny, Sonny, and Woody WoodpeckerHurricane JacksonEddie MachenNew York '58. . .Benny Kid Paret Takes Up Residence at an Efficiency HotelThe FarmConstruction Sites. . .Blocked Sidewalks. . .Pedestrian DetoursSometimes You Win. . .BigYou're Dead When They Cut the Gloves OffWatching the Bout on TV, Benny Kid Paret's Two-Year-Old Son Screamed: Papa. . .Papa. . .Papa. . .You the Better Man?Precise Jabs, a Hook to His RibsThree Days Beyond Leotis Martin vs. Sonny BanksWoody WoodpeckerHospital Bed in a Living RoomRon Lyle vs. Muhammed AliCarrying the BaggageSouth. . .A Mile Short of True VegasRoadwork, Six Miles with Ron Lyle in Las Vegas, at the Dunes Golf Course, a Few Days Prior to Lyle's World Championship Bout with Muhammed AliThe WorkhouseLyle vs. Ali, Tenth RoundA Taped Jump Rope Dangles in the Night GymNot a Contender, a JourneymanNight TrainSpokaneFaith, Whirligig, DamnationExtra BlanketUnion City, Tennessee, Six RoundsHoly Mass for Broken HandsFlash a Smile and Keep WalkingEclipse of the SunVisits with JoannaPeppermint Go-Go Ancient DiaryOvergrown MemoryNight Watchman. . .One-Eyed Attack Dog MuttLast Day of SummerSparring in a Cold Showers GymJanuary Roadwork: Watery, Red EyesThe Further DaysAfterlife RoadLow Rounds. . .High-Intensity WorkoutDementia PugilisticaAfter I Die. . .AcknowledgmentsAbout the Author

Red Shuttleworth holds degrees from City College of San Francisco, San Francisco State University, and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He has been writing poetry for more than fifty years and has also written short fiction and texts for the theater for decades. Shuttleworth took up boxing while a student at City College of San Francisco in the sixties. He had three amateur bouts, one of which he won by decision. At the age of 75, diagnosed with a heart condition, Shuttleworth began training again to box and now has a 2-0 record, with one win by a first-round knockout and the other win by decision. Both matches were against boxers in their twenties.

The poems in Eclipse of the Sun are at once as hard-hitting as a George Foreman right cross and as intricate as a Bach fugue, which is no mean accomplishment. Red goes the distance in this collection. And then some. Eclipse of the Sun is an American classic." - W.K. (Kip) Stratton, author of Last Red Dirt Embrace and The Wild Bunch

• Have Fists Will Bang, Mackenzie, British ColumbiaNature's CourseThe Dog Knows Winter Is ComingThe Boxer on CanvasPrince George, BC, Canada: Four-Round BoutThe Dog in the CemeteryAgainst the Sky on a RidgeRacing Our SeasonsAll-Night Prince George Waffle House. . .Taking RestPolished Walnut CoffinA Few Flakes of Snow CollapseEvening at Crooked River, BCHurricane, Eddie, Benny, Sonny, and Woody WoodpeckerHurricane JacksonEddie MachenNew York '58. . .Benny Kid Paret Takes Up Residence at an Efficiency HotelThe FarmConstruction Sites. . .Blocked Sidewalks. . .Pedestrian DetoursSometimes You Win. . .BigYou're Dead When They Cut the Gloves OffWatching the Bout on TV, Benny Kid Paret's Two-Year-Old Son Screamed: Papa. . .Papa. . .Papa. . .You the Better Man?Precise Jabs, a Hook to His RibsThree Days Beyond Leotis Martin vs. Sonny BanksWoody WoodpeckerHospital Bed in a Living RoomRon Lyle vs. Muhammed AliCarrying the BaggageSouth. . .A Mile Short of True VegasRoadwork, Six Miles with Ron Lyle in Las Vegas, at the Dunes Golf Course, a Few Days Prior to Lyle's World Championship Bout with Muhammed AliThe WorkhouseLyle vs. Ali, Tenth RoundA Taped Jump Rope Dangles in the Night GymNot a Contender, a JourneymanNight TrainSpokaneFaith, Whirligig, DamnationExtra BlanketUnion City, Tennessee, Six RoundsHoly Mass for Broken HandsFlash a Smile and Keep WalkingEclipse of the SunVisits with JoannaPeppermint Go-Go Ancient DiaryOvergrown MemoryNight Watchman. . .One-Eyed Attack Dog MuttLast Day of SummerSparring in a Cold Showers GymJanuary Roadwork: Watery, Red EyesThe Further DaysAfterlife RoadLow Rounds. . .High-Intensity WorkoutDementia PugilisticaAfter I Die. . .AcknowledgmentsAbout the Author