Thomas Bolt

Life

Awards

• Rome Prize for Literature of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
• Yale Younger Poets Prize
• The Peter I. B. Lavin Younger Poet Award of the American Academy of Poets
• Ingram Merrill Fellowship
• 1997 Artist's Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts

  Works

• Thomas Bolt, BOMB, Issue 45 Fall 1993
• At the Motel of the Villa of the Mysteries, Literary Imagination 2005 7: 258-261

  Books

• Dark Ice, 1993–1997, a poem of 1,001 lines with notes and parodies of notes, was first published in BOMB in the fall of 1993.
• Dark Ice on Zembla hypertext and the ASCII version on NABOKV-L

  Anthologies

• 1971 Pontiac LeMans, The Paris Review, No. 109, Winter 1988
• Sixty Years of American Poetry.
• "A Cluster of Sunsets," in the Autumn 1997 issue of Southwest Review
• Two Poems, The Paris Review, No. 154, Spring 2000

  Interviews

• Reviews

Bolt handles his subject matter with admirable attention to detail and precision of language; he ranges easily from adjective-replete accounts to stark, minimalist statements