Ace Boggess: Poet & Literary Novelist
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Ace Boggess: Poet & Literary Novelist
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Now Available From Gatto Publishing
Displaced Hours, the first published novel by Ace Boggess, available from Gatto Publishing in Scotland (www.gattopublishing.com). Ask yourself, "If you could do anything in the world without fear of consequences, how far would you go?). Professor of Existentialism Lee Sinclair decides to test his ethics by asking such a question, and the answer he comes up with (as might be true for any one of us) could drive a man mad.
Also available:
The Beautiful Girl Whose Wish Was Not Fulfilled, a collection of poems. $8 cover price plus $2 shipping and handling to Highwire Press, 173 Grandview Road, Wernersville, PA 19565. For more info, visit: www.circlemagazine.com/beautifulgirl
Here is a taste from the book (note, this poem first appeared in BORDERLANDS: TEXAS POETRY REVIEW):
THINGS I FORGOT TO LOVE
Not that I meant to, no, but today there
were so many— each with sacred angles,
skin of porcelain, grass, & sugar. I couldn’t
stop to see every expression a woman wears,
or taste those lips with my eyes. The sun crept up,
somewhat sluggish, over houses, hillsides,
the neighbors’ boy mowing the lawn.
I barely noticed, missed an opportunity
to return its warmth coming from shadows,
my morning clouds. I forgot to love cars
going by, squirrels & birds in the forest
of my lawn like fur-tasseled jesters dancing
to a minstrel’s song, my two cats— well,
maybe one or the other (I can’t be sure).
I’m not cold or loveless like the dying oak
out front, or so I’d believe had so many things
not gone unloved today. What did I spend
ornate hours doing? I loved a few words,
& a morsel of caramel. So little, as time
is long, with even the flushed, giddy merlot
I pour as I ask this question overlooked.
WILD SWEET NOTES II: MORE GREAT POETRY FROM WEST VIRGINIA, an anthology of poems edited and compiled by Ace will be available from Publishers Place (Huntington, WV) as of October, 2004 (e-mail for details).
Ace also writes and records songs. For a couple of free mp3s of his older songs, click the link below. Or, see http://hometown.aol.com/aceofcupstunes
Also, another of Ace's novels, BEAUTIFUL AMBIVALENCE, can be read free of charge. The novel is available by hyperlinks between literary magazines that have published the individual stories from the book. So far, 7 of the 9 stories are available online. Use these link below to read BEAUTIFUL AMBIVALENCE in order:
1. "Mars"
published in Peaks^
http://peaks.tambay.org/node/126?PHPSESSID=b7346dc0df263c404d94c365c2027d52
2 "The Social Experiment"
(not yet published)
3 "The Galapagos Club"
published in Perigee
http://www.perigee-art.com/encore/prose_docs/1.php
4 "Are You a Friend of Jesus?"
published in Lily Literary Review
http://freewebs.com/lilylitreview/1_8boggess.html
5 "Philosophy for Bartenders"
published in Spillway Review
http://www.spillwayreview.com/halloween04philosophy.html
6 "Scars"
published in Nantahala Review
http://nantahalareview.org/issue3-1/fiction/BOGGESS.htm
7 "Sonja Goes South"
(not yet published)
8 "Beautiful Ambivalence"
published in SN Review
http://www.angelfire.com/ct3/snreview/0204Boggess.html
9 "And I Can Die Now"
published in Megaera
http://www.megaera.org/Megaera/fall04/boggess.html
If you enjoy this novel, please consider purchasing DISPLACED HOURS as your next electronic read: www.gattopublishing.com (available for download or on CD-Rom with cover art).
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About the Author
Ace received his B.A. from Marshall University in 1993, and his Juris Doctorate from West Virginia University in 1998. In addition to his poetry book, he has published four chapbooks: Socrates Said, a play (Grimpenmire Press: Springfield, OR, 1996); two featuring poetry, Compost Heap (Naked Press: Huntington, WV, 1994) and Desire's Orchestra (Three-Legged-Dog Press: Plymouth, MI, 1998); and an exploration of writer psychology, Writer's Nature (Circle Publications: Wernersville, PA, 2001). His writing has appeared more than 600 times in various literary journals, including among them: Harvard Review, Notre Dame Review, Poetry East, Atlanta Review, Antietam Review, The Oregon Review, Baltimore Review, Clackamas Literary Review, Chaminade Literary Review, Portland Review, Potomac Review, Elixir, Birmingham Poetry Review, Clay Palm Review, Bryant Literary Review, Cider Press Review, The Southeast Review, Lullwater Review, INKWELL, The Florida Review, The Wallace Stevens Journal, Blue Mesa Review, and many others. He has been nominated five times for the Pushcart Prize, once each by the editors of The Burning Cloud Review (poem), The Journal of Contemporary Satire (story), The Paumanok Review (poem), Phantasmagoria (poem), and most recently, Northwest Florida Review (poem).
Currently Ace is searching for a publisher for his other literary novels, especially STATES OF MERCY, a Siddhartha-like tale of a young woman's spiritual quest in our age of the new millennium and 9/11, HAUNTING GRAY, and A SONG WITHOUT A MELODY.
In July of 2001, Ace was awarded a fellowship for fiction from the West Virginia Division of Culture and History for another novel manuscript, BEYOND THE SCOPE OF DREAMS.
For more information about this or anything really, even just to chat, contact Ace by e-mail: aceboggess@aol.com. No SPAM or SPAM IMs please.
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BOOKS TO READ
In addition to his own works, published and future, Ace urges everyone to explore the following:
everything ever written by Hermann Hesse;
Les Miserables, Toilers of the Sea, and The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo;
Being There by Jerzy Kosinski;
All Men Are Mortal and She Came to Stay by Simone de Beauvoir;
Immortality, Identity, Life is Elsewhere, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, et al, by Milan Kundera;
Nausea by Sartre;
A Burnt-out Case by Graham Greene;
Naked Lunch by William Burroughs.
Also pick up anything you can from Umberto Eco, Louis de Bernieres, Dostoevsky, Chinua Achebe, Max Frisch, Halldor Laxness, Knut Hamsun, Irvin D. Yalom; Christopher Moore for fun; and poets Pablo Neruda, Natasha Saje, Billy Collins, David Rigsbee, Jack Myers, C.J. Sage, Adam Zagajewski and David Lehman (as well as Huntington, WV, authors John McKernan, A.E. Stringer, and Ron Houchin).
For Ace's thoughts on other books, poetry and prose, visit The Adirondack Review:
http://adirondackreview.homestead.com/index.html
where he is associate editor and writes reviews:
http://adirondackreview.homestead.com/reviews.html
As a side note, here are Ace's favorites:
TOP 10 MOVIES: 1 The End of the Affair, 2 Lost in Translation, 3 The Lord of the Rings trilogy, 4 Wonderboys, 5 The Last Samurai, 6 The English Patient, 7 the original Star Wars trilogy, 8 Dune/Children of Dune, 9 Life as a House, 10 The Saint.
TOP 10 BANDS: 1 Rusted Root (by far and with nothing else coming close), 2 Mike Doughty (solo and with Soul Coughing), 3 Cracker, 4 David Bowie, 5 Pink Floyd, 6 (don't laugh) Fastway, 7 Grateful Dead, 8 Garbage, 9 Ekoostik Hookah, 10 Joydrop.
TOP 5 NOVELS: 1 Siddhartha, 2 The Stranger, 3 Naked Lunch, 4 Les Miserables, 5 The Glass Bead Game.
Favorite album: Welcome to My Party by Rusted Root.
Favorite song: "The Final Cut" by Pink Floyd.
Favorite actors: Ralph Fiennes, Johnny Depp
Favorite actresses: Scarlett Johannson, Katie Holmes
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