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Joe Bolton (poet)

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Joe Bolton
photo by Tonya Parsons
photo by Tonya Parsons
BornDecember 3, 1961
Cadiz, Kentucky
DiedMarch, 1990 aged 28
OccupationPoet
NationalityAmerican

Joe Bolton (December 3, 1961 – March 1990) was an American poet.[1]

He was born in Cadiz, Kentucky.[2] He completed a master's degree at the University of Florida in 1988.[3] In 1990, after completing his Master of Fine Arts, he died by suicide. He published three books of poetry.[4][5]

Bibliography

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  • Breckinridge County Suite (The Cummington Press, 1987).
  • Days of Summer Gone (Galileo Press, 1990).
  • The Last Nostalgia Poems, 1982–1990, edited by Donald Justice (University of Arkansas Press, 1999) ISBN 1-55728-558-6.

References

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  1. ^ "Hell and back". New Criterion. September 1, 1998. Joe Bolton (1960-1990) is the author of Days of Summer Gone (Galileo Press). His Collected Poems, edited by Donald Justice"
  2. ^ "Imperfect Villanelle". Rhetoric Review. Joe Bolton, poet, suicide at twenty-eight. I thought of him as a latter-day Weldon Kees, in love with death, the voice ...
  3. ^ "Some Alumni & Alumnae of MFA@FLA". University of Florida. Archived from the original on 2018-04-30. Retrieved 2008-01-07.
  4. ^ "The Last Nostalgia Poems". University of Arkansas Press.
  5. ^ "No mercy". New Criterion. December 1, 1991. Joe Bolton killed himself in 1990 at the age of twenty-eight. The Last Nostalgia, his collected poems, comes with the particular taint and grace to which ...
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