Chat by Ace Boggess
Conversation about the burden of myth, cultural anthropology, hero’s journey. Conversation about bourbon, rum, Jägermeister—health benefits & drunk, drunk, drunk—hard drugs, why it’s still difficult to find weed in an age of enlightenment, age of lighting up. Or is it? Always some friend of a friend. Do you have friends? Do your friends have friends? Conversation about slasher films & other 80s horror: the Jason Voorhees of the Unconscious, Freddy Krueger of raging Id, Shakespearean drama of Pinhead & human tragedy. Conversation about pink wigs & fingerless gloves—not an art for amping lust; a craft, apprenticeship through journeyman to master. Conversation about heavy metal, old-time religion of angry youth, now so old, yet one hangs on, right? Driving distortions, intensity, release. We need this. Conversation about politics of wrong- headedness, old white men marinated in years of ignorance because they missed all the best conversations. |
Ace Boggess is the author of six books of poetry, including Escape Envy (Brick Road Poetry Press, 2021), I Have Lost the Art of Dreaming It So, and The Prisoners. His writing has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Notre Dame Review, Harvard Review, Mid-American Review, and other journals. An ex-con, he lives in Charleston, West Virginia, where he writes and tries to stay out of trouble. |