"This work is unlike any other, in its range of rich, conjuring imagery and its dexterity, its smart voice. Carroll-Hackett doesn’t spare us—but doesn’t save us—she draws a blueprint of power and class with her unflinching pivot: matter-of-fact and tender." —Jan Beatty

Monday Must Read! Ace Boggess: The Prisoners

May 23, 2016

 

boggess-photoThis week meet Ace Boggess, the author of two books of poetry: The Prisoners (Brick Road Poetry Press, 2014) and The Beautiful Girl Whose Wish Was Not Fulfilled (Highwire Press, 2003). His novel, A Song Without a Melody, is forthcoming from Hyperborea Publishing. His writing has appeared in Harvard Review, Mid-American Review, RATTLE, River Styx, North Dakota Quarterly and many other journals. He lives in Charleston, West Virginia.

(I first read Ace’s poetry years ago when I was editing The Dos Passos Review and loved it, the boldness, the elegance, the careful heartbreaking balance between humor and humanity. Good good stuff, y’all.)

Buy The Prisoners!

http://brickroadpoetrypress.com/order-books/the-prisoners-by-ace-boggess

Buy The Beautiful Girl Whose Wish Was Unfulfilled

http://www.amazon.com/Beautiul-Girl-Whose-Wish-Fulfilled/dp/0972180117

Read More From Ace Online

http://www.heartwoodlitmag.com/aceboggess/

http://www.rattle.com/tag/ace-boggess/

http://lightningkeyreview.com/blog/life-of-crime-ace-boggess/

https://voxpopulisphere.com/2014/09/27/ace-boggess-four-poems/

http://www.subtletea.com/aceboggesspoetry.htm

http://www.caveat-lector.org/2401/website/poetry/boggess.html

http://www.cortlandreview.com/issue/69/boggess.php

http://www.reduxlitjournal.com/2014/02/118-two-poems-by-ace-boggess.html

https://themuseumofamericana.net/issues/current-issue-7/poetry/two-poems-by-ace-boggess/

Interviews

https://permafrostmag.com/2015/09/09/interview-with-ace-boggess/

http://www.missourireview.com/tmr-blog/2013/10/literature-on-lockdown-ace-boggess/

https://geosireads.wordpress.com/2014/09/24/ace-boggess-on-drug-addiction-life-in-prison-writing-advice-for-drug-addicts/

Hear Ace Read

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N75JaAp963A

And Sing 🙂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ychiXKghuU

 

 

Happy Reading, y’all!

xo

Mary

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