Tonight's Main Event - Softcover

Ricard, Gabriel; Wright, Daniel W

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1958182702 ISBN 13: 9781958182703

Publisher: Liquid Lunch Press, 2024

Synopsis

Amazing to me that in 25 years, I've never written 

poems about pro wrestling. 

I've written fan fiction and other things when I was 

much younger, but never poems along these lines. I've broken 

everything down into three sections. One for my memories. 

One for random topics I felt like writing about. The third is a 

shoot interview with a fictional wrestler named Mark Prime. 

When Dan Wright asked me if I was interested in 

doing this book with him, a lot of different ideas and anecdotes 

from my past suddenly came rushing to me. I realized as I 

started writing these that I had far more negative associations 

with this weird, amazing form of athletic entertainment than 

positive ones. This book doesn't change that, but it did go 

a long way towards making me understand why I stopped 

watching to a significant extent a few years ago.

But I'll always be a fan. It's hard to shake something 

that has been part of my life in some form or fashion for about 

35 years. Like music and film, wrestling has been meaningful to 

my influences and dreams and ideas in ways that are hard, perhaps 

silly, to explain. No matter what, I can't seem to quit wrestling 

as a fan entirely.

Writing these poems reminded me of everything in 

wrestling that depresses me, and everything about wrestling that 

tires out my enthusiasm. At the same time, this book gave me 

more enthusiasm for what I do love about this sport than I've 

felt in quite possibly a full decade. I've exercised through writing 

some of the things about pro wrestling that annoy or sadden 

me, particularly most wrestling fans. What's left is a book I'm 

very proud of about a subject I'm glad has been part of my life. 

Wrestling is surreal, heroic, ridiculous, dangerous, and 

ultimately something that never fails to surprise me. It's still real 

to me dammit.

Edition details

• Publisher: Liquid Lunch Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1958182702
• ISBN 13: 9781958182703
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 178