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Damon Sauve
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Days of Summer Gone. Master's thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville, 1988. 52 leaves (typescript). Bolton's MA thesis resides at the Special Collections Library at the University of Florida and contains both the material from the two poetry collections cited below, as well as two additional poems—"Towards Twenty-Four" and "In Pieces." The Bolton poem in this issue, "The Summer Loves," is taken from the version of Breckinridge County Suite in this manuscript. Breckinridge County Suite: A Poem to a Young Kentucky Woman. Omaha, Nebraska: Cummington Press, 1989. Bolton's first published poetry collection was limited to two hundred fifteen copies. A slightly different version of this poem was published in the Spring 1987 issue of Crazyhorse. Days of Summer Gone. Baltimore, Maryland: Galileo Press, 1990. An Acknowledgements page cites the 19 literary journals in which all 33 published poems first appeared. This publication list, as well as Roth's American Poetry Annual (published, fortuitously, between 1988 and 1990) and Bolton's contributors notes, were used to assemble this bibliography.
(1991 March-April). [Unsigned review of Days of Summer Gone]. Small Press Book Review, vol. 6. p. 8. "Even when he turns to rowdier, more livelier subjects . . . the poet still sees such delicacy at the heart of the situation and its characters . . . Sometimes, this sense of delicacy . . . leads to a collapse of appearances and sudden disclosure of what they are trying to conceal or disguise. The present is, well, merely the present; it takes form mainly by the light of the past." Driscoll, Chad. (1995 March). "Days of Summer Gone: This is One of Them." Oyster Boy Review, no. 2. pp. 17-23. Noting Bolton's influence, Driscoll writes, "To read what he has left behind, to live with it for many years as I have, makes life a sadder thing, yes—but a thing more true as well, and therefore more worth living. That's no small feat." The essay accompanies the two Bolton poems which were ommitted from Days (noted in MA thesis citation above).
(1984). "Another Rainy Night." Blue Buildings, no. 7. p. 42. (1985 Winter). "Weightlifter Poems." Plainsong, vol. 6, no. 1. pp. 19-23. Contributors section notes: "Scarab devoted most of a recent issue to his poems." (1985-1986). "After Rain" & "Speaking of the South: 1961." The Missouri Review, vol. 9, no. 2. pp. 201-203. (1986 Fall). "Three Scenes from the Provinces of Blood" & "Party." Crazyhorse, no. 31. pp. 32-36. (1986 Fall). "Towards Twenty-Four." Black Warrior Review, vol. 13, no. 1. pp. 69-70. (1987 Spring). "Breckinridge County Suite: To A Young Kentucky Woman" & "Party." Crazyhorse, no. 32. pp. 44-63. Contributors section notes: "he has recently married and lives in Gainesville, Florida." (1987 Spring). "The Seasons: A Quartet" & "Fathers and Sons." Black Warrior Review, vol. 14, no. 2. pp. 28-32. (1987 Spring). "Sestina: Anonymous Spanish Drawing" & "Sonnet: Bored Cop Leaning against Abstract Sculpture on Plaza below Skyscraper." Cumberland Poetry Review, vol. 6, no. 2. pp. 42-44. (1987 Spring). "Sonnet: Anonymous Spanish Watercolor." The South Florida Poetry Review, vol. 4, no. 3. p. 33. (1987 Autumn). "Loca Santa #1" Yellow Silk, no. 24. p. 11. (1987 Fall). "American Variations" and "A Wreath of Stars: Symsonia, Kentucky, 1914." Southern Poetry Review, vol. 27, no. 2. pp. 5-8. Recipient of the magazine's Guy Owen Poetry Prize. Contributors section notes another recent award: "First Prize, Jacksonville Poetry Festival." (1987 Fall). "The Southern Quartet: Improvisations on Themes from Vallejo's Trilce." The Chattahoochee Review, vol. 8, no. 1. [4 pp.] Includes: "In Search of the Other World," "In Atlanta Once," "Days of Summer Gone," & "Lament on New Year's Day." (1988 Spring). "Landscapes I." Western Humanities Review, vol. 42, no. 1. p. 72. Titled "Study" in Days of Summer Gone. (1988 Spring). "Autumn Fugue." Crazyhorse, no. 34. pp. 33-98. (1988 October). "Tall Palms (A Poem)." The Yale Review, vol. 77, no. 4. p. 607. (1988 Winter). "A Hymn to the Body." Crazyhorse, no. 35. pp. 38-40. (1989) "Contemplating a Landscape in Spring." The Connecticut Poetry Review, vol. 8, no. 1. pp. 25-26. (1989). "The Green Diamonds of Summer." Apalachee Quarterly, no. 32. pp. 92-97. (1989 Winter-Spring). "Wild Horses" & "The Beginning of Summer." Quarterly West, no. 28. pp. 83, 84. (1989 Spring). "Daisy Miller in the Colosseum." The Threepenny Review, no. 37. p. 11. (1989 Spring). "Hurricane" & "Little Testament." Indiana Review, vol. 12, no. 2. pp. 109, 111. (1989 May). "Elegy for Roland Barthes." Poetry, vol. 154, no. 2. pp. 63-64. Contributors section notes: "earned a BA at Western Kentucky University and an MA in creative writing at the University of Florida . . . An instructor at the University of Arizona, he received a fellowship from the NEA this year." (1989 May). "Elegy at Summer's End." The New Criterion, vol. 7, no. 9. p. 51. (1989 June). "Sherwood Anderson, 1912." The North American Review, vol. 274, no. 2. p. 27. (1989 Summer). "Diptych: Improvisations on a Theme by Jimenez." The Antioch Review, vol. 47, no. 3. pp. 328-329. (1989 Fall). "The Parthenon at Nashville" & "August Elegy." Cumberland Poetry Review, vol. 9, no. 1. pp. 40-41. (1989 Fall). "Tropical Deco (Miami Beach)." The South Florida Poetry Review, vol. 7, no. 1. p. 9. (1990). "Aubade." Agni, nos. 31-32. pp. 188-189. (1990 Spring). "Flamingos (after Rilke)." The Threepenny Review, vol. 41. p. 16. (1991). "South Boulevard." Apalachee Quarterly, nos. 36-37. pp. 65-66. (1991 Spring). "Style" & "The Circumstances" & "Death in Orange County." Crazyhorse, nos. 40-41. pp. 45-49. Contributors section notes: "died, by suicide, in March 1990 . . . Days of Summer Gone appeared posthumously from Galileo Press. The poems in this issue are from another substantial manuscript." (1991 Winter). "Near." Denver Quarterly, vol. 25, no. 3. pp. 6-7. (1995 March). "Towards Twenty-Four" & "In Pieces." Oyster Boy Review, no. 2. pp. 24-27.
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