Good Luck With That - Paperback

by Diane Kistner (Editor), Don Boes (Author)

This collection by Don Boes features quick shifts in tone, subject, and language as a way to discover and track the moving targets of life. Each poem offers an experience based in serious wordplay and deadpan seriousness. Poem titles like "History of Appliances" and "Retain this Portion for Your Records" hint at the jangly conglomerations that we will read and enjoy and then read again.

Author Biography

Don Boes was born in Louisville, Kentucky. He received his B.A. from Centre College and his M.F.A. from Indiana University. HE has been awarded three Al Smith fellowships from the Kentucky Arts Council. He has also been a resident at the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire and the Ragdale Foundation in Illinois. His collections include one volume of poetry, The Eighth Continent (Northeastern University Press), and one chapbook entitled Railroad Crossing (Finishing Line Press). Boes' poetry appears in two recent anthologies, What Comes Down To Us: 25 Contemporary Kentucky Poets (University of Kentucky Press) and Bigger Than They Appear: Very Short Poems (Accents Publishing). He lives in Lexington, Kentucky, and teaches at Bluegrass Community and Technical College. He is married to Gaby Bedetti, and they have two children, Simon and Caroline.