The Beautiful Girl Whose Wish Was Not Fulfilled [Paperback]

Ace Boggess (Author)

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Review

Like a literary salon, these poems are peopled with characters one is curious to meet... -- Natasha Sajé

About the Author

ACE BOGGESS of Huntington, West Virginia, earned degrees from Marshall (B.A.) and West Virginia (J.D.) Universities. He is associate editor for The Adirondack Review. His poems have appeared in Harvard Review, Notre Dame Review, Atlanta Review, The Florida Review, The Oregon Review, The Wallace Stevens Journal and similar publications.

Product Details

• Paperback: 52 pages
• Publisher: Highwire Press (January 1, 2003)
• ISBN-10: 0972180117
• ISBN-13: 978-0972180115
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.3 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,996,961 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sensual..., January 31, 2003

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andrea fekete (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Beautiful Girl Whose Wish Was Not Fulfilled (Paperback)

Ace Boggess always had a gift for the sensual but before seemed to not drift into that direction as often as I thought he should, but this book is just all senses and in places wicked romantic. My kind of stuff. I really like the letters section. I loved the one about charlotte and the fireflies. That was just beautiful. The entire book is sexy and intellectual which is pretty hard
to pull off.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sensual, smart poetry, February 5, 2003

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Philosophy Girl - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Beautiful Girl Whose Wish Was Not Fulfilled (Paperback)

This book touches the young girl in me with its beautiful, romantic pieces, but it also reaches the philosophy student in poems that touch on meanings and identity. "The Way Camus Wrote Women" is my favorite piece and says something about Camus that I'd never thought about. Also, the letters poems are remarkable. They seem to catch the author's personal life in brief meditations. I'm glad I found this book. It's such a perfect collection. Some other favorites of mine are "Things I Forgot To Love" and "Existential Questions, Answers In Letters To Marged." Great stuff. Like a collaboration between Nietzsche and Neruda.