Showing posts with label suicide. Show all posts
Showing posts with label suicide. Show all posts
i know it's hard, but it's probably nothing to kill yourself over. but way to finish the thesis.
3 comments Posted by Iris Moulton at 3:18 PMPoet Joe Bolton, having just completed his MFA thesis at the University of Kentucky, killed himself. (1990)
Joe Bolton was from Cadiz, Kentucky. It may sound like a strange place to be from, and I imagine it is, but some of the happiest time ever spent on earth I imagine was spent by me, and in Cadiz Kentucky, a few months before I would ever hear of Joe Bolton.
Joe received a Masters from the University of Florida, and a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Kentucky. His work is the subject of a graduate thesis by Joe Schmidt.... already.... lesson being that the sooner we can pull off dying, the sooner our work can be studied.
His work, I should mention, is quite lovely.
He remains, in his native Kentucky, a bit of a cult classic.
He published three books of poetry: Breckenridge County Suite (1987), Days of Summer Gone (1990), and Last Nostalgia Poems (1987-1990). Last Nostalgia Poems combines the two books, and other unpublished poems.
I would recommend picking up a copy.I would also recommend not killing yourself.
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