I have just completed lesson #9 and completed the assignment of watching the documentary on Buck. That was a great story with so many emotions to consider. No sooner had I finished that when a story aired regarding a poet who had been a muay tai fighter. I find it surprising that so much empathy can come from pain both physical and mental. Here is some info to Master a poetry book. enjoy !

The debut collection from Simon Shieh, Master is a stark, surreal, and imagistic reckoning with a traumatic past. Master follows the speaker's struggle with masculinity from a martial arts school in upstate New York to a boxing academy in Beijing. Language emerges in this collection not as a neutral witness to a boy’s subjugation, but as the very tool of hegemony, though one which also holds the key to its own undoing, and therefore to freedom. As much as Master is the story of pain, it is also a journey to healing, illuminating that while violence can be our patrimony, it does not have to be our destiny.