{"id":98930,"date":"2016-06-06T16:58:03","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T20:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=98930"},"modified":"2016-06-06T17:38:58","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T21:38:58","slug":"george-plimpton-on-muhammad-ali-the-poet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/06\/george-plimpton-on-muhammad-ali-the-poet\/","title":{"rendered":"George Plimpton on Muhammad Ali, the Poet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/embed\/video\/x75uqd\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><center><\/center><\/p>\n<p> In the clip above, our founding editor George Plimpton recalls hearing Muhammad Ali give a lecture to thousands of Harvard graduates, and the poem that emerged from it:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>He gave this wonderful speech \u2026 It was moving, it was funny at the same time, and there was a great roar of appreciation at the end of it. And then, someone shouted out, Give us a poem! Now the shortest poem in the English language, according to <em>Bartlett\u2019s Quotations<\/em>, is called \u201cOn the Antiquity of Microbes.\u201d And the poem is \u201cAdam\u2009\/\u2009Had \u2019em.\u201d It\u2019s pretty short. But Muhammad Ali\u2019s poem was, \u201cMe?\u2009\/\u2009Whee!!\u201d Two words. I wrote <em>Bartlett\u2019s Quotations<\/em> and I said, Look here, that\u2019s shorter than \u201cAdam\u2009\/\u2009Had \u2019em.\u201d You wanna put it in? It stands for something more than the poem itself: Me, whee. What a fighter he was, and what a man.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ali_plimp.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-98953\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-98953\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ali_plimp.png\" alt=\"Ali_Plimp\" width=\"600\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ali_plimp.png 600w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ali_plimp-300x206.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ali_plimp2.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-98954\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-98954\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ali_plimp2.png\" alt=\"Ali_Plimp2\" width=\"600\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ali_plimp2.png 600w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ali_plimp2-300x201.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This was not, if you can believe it, the only time Plimpton witnessed Ali in an act of spontaneous versification. He also had the pleasure of introducing the boxer to Marianne Moore and watching the two of them collaborate on a sonnet\u2014an encounter he describes in his book\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/031632664X\/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_3?pf_rd_p=1944687582&amp;pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&amp;pf_rd_t=201&amp;pf_rd_i=B005DICPSO&amp;pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_r=1JEFADP4X461382TRJG4\" target=\"_blank\">Shadow Box<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>He announced that if she was the greatest poetess in the country, the two of them should produce something together\u2014\u201cI am a poet, too,\u201d he said\u2014a joint effort sonnet, it was to be, with each of them doing alternate lines. Miss Moore nodded vaguely. Ali was very much the more decisive of the pair, picking not only the form but also the topic: \u201cMrs. Moore and I are going to write a sonnet about my upcoming fight in Houston with Ernie Terrell,\u201d he proclaimed to the table. \u201cMrs. Moore and I will show the world with this great poem who is who and what is what and who is going to win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> \u201cWe will call it \u2018A Poem on the Annihilation of Ernie Terrell,\u2019\u2009\u201d Miss Moore announced. \u201cLet us be serious but not grim.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> \u201cShe\u2019s cute,\u201d Ali commented.<\/p>\n<p> A pen was produced. Ali was given a menu on which to write. He started off with half the first line\u2014\u201cAfter we defeat\u201d\u2014and asked Miss Moore to write in Ernie Terrell (which she misspelled \u201cErnie Tyrell\u201d in her spidery script) just to get her \u201cwarmed up.\u201d He wrote most of the second line\u2014\u201cHe will catch nothing\u201d\u2014handing the pen over and expecting Miss Moore to fill in the obvious rhyme, and he was quite surprised when she did not. She made some scratchy squiggles on the paper to get the ink flowing properly. The fighter peered over her shoulder.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cWhat\u2019s that say?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cIt doesn\u2019t say anything. You could call them \u2018preliminaries.\u2019 Terrell should rhyme nicely with \u2018bell,\u2019 Miss Moore said tentatively. I could see her lips move as she fussed with possibilities. Finally, Ali leaned over and whispered to her, \u201c\u2009\u2018but hell,\u2019 Mrs. Moore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> \u201cOh yes,\u201d she said. She wrote down \u201cbut hell,\u201d but then she wrestled with it some more, clucking gently, and murmuring about the rhythm of the line, and she crossed it out and substituted, \u201che will get nothing, nothing but hell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After we defeat Ernie Terrell<br \/> He will get nothing, nothing but hell,<br \/> Terrell was big and ugly and tall<br \/> But when he fights me he is sure to fall.<br \/> If he criticize this poem by me and Miss Moore<br \/> To prove he is not the champ she will stop him in four,<br \/> He is claiming to be the real heavyweight champ<br \/> But when the fight starts he will look like a tramp<br \/> He has been talking too much about me and making me sore<br \/> After I am through with him he will not be able to challenge Mrs. Moore.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the clip above, our founding editor George Plimpton recalls hearing Muhammad Ali give a lecture to thousands of Harvard graduates, and the poem that 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