Joe Bolton (poet)

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 committed suicide. He published three books of poetry.[4][5]

Bibliography

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.

"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"
"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 ...
"Some Alumni & Alumnae of MFA@FLA". University of Florida. Archived from the original on 2018-04-30. Retrieved 2008-01-07.
"The Last Nostalgia Poems". University of Arkansas Press.
"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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