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by: Joe Bolton
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9781557285584
ISBN: 1557285586
Label: University of Arkansas Press
Manufacturer: University of Arkansas Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 206
Publication Date: 1999-05
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Sales Rank: 509498
Studio: University of Arkansas Press
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Rating: - Joe Bolton
I had the chance to meet Joe the Autumn before his death in a classroom at Western Kentucky University. He had the amazing gift of seducing an entire room with his reading, and helping the rest of us become better poets. Breckenridge County Suite hit the nail so clearly on the head of what it was to grow up in the South, that despite the construction, remains partially frozen in memory. I wonder, mostly for selfish reasons, what greatness he could have achieved were he still alive.
Rating: - My Bible
Whenever I think I don't have any more poems to write, I turn to Joe. He found the rational in the irrational, the sane in the insane. He made everything real. Every normalcy was overturned for me because of him. His need to examine what is right in front of our eyes was extremely... EXTREME. I'm just so sad I never had the opportunity to meet him.
Rating: - Haunting, beautiful
The work is haunting and beautiful. This is an essential book for poets/readers who love the harsh and beautiful light of Raymond Carver or the lyric beauty of classic poetry. A tragedy he's not here to write more. I attended the same MFA program as the writer. He had an affect on the entire program for years.
Rating: - Tragic and Beautiful
What is so notable about Joe Bolton is the superb level of craft, style and especially intensity - which he wrote by the age of 28. In a style close to, but not mimicking, James Wright, he looked at his place of birth and every place he ever lived (which included Miami, Houston and Tuscon) and drew out all the despair and futility. It is as if his poems soaked all the dread and death and took ownership of it, not simply writing about such subjects, but being them.
Rating: - The best book of poems (by a new poet) in years
This is how words should be used. Beautiful. Seductive. Lyrical. Bleak, and underneathh all that, a celebration of (or a yearning for) simplicity. A numinousity emanates from Bolton's work. His verse is intimate, intensely beautiful, whole -- and yes, it will last. He was by far the best of the young poets of his time.
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