[New-Poetry] Marvin Bell interviewed

[TheOldMole]

I've always thought that Hal Johnson's work could be compared to Jerry 
Lewis. Whether or not that's a compliment depends on whether or not you 
think I'm French.

Halvard Johnson wrote:
> Shoot, anyone's work can be compared to Whitman's
> (or anyone else's).
>
> Hal
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> Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.
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> Halvard Johnson
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> On Aug 9, 2007, at 5:35 PM, jforjames at aol.com 
> <mailto:jforjames at aol.com> wrote:
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>> http://www.bellinghamherald.com/lifestyle/story/150322.html
>>
>> Poet Marvin Bell's work has been compared to Walt Whitman
>> Writer reflects on war, death in latest volume
>>  
>> MARVIN BELL
>> "Mars Being Red"
>> 7 p.m. next Thursday, Aug. 16
>> Village Books, 1200 11th St., 671-2626
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>> MARGARET BIKMAN
>> THE BELLINGHAM HERALD
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>> Marvin Bell, 70, the first Poet Laureate of Iowa, and now retired 
>> after 40 years on the faculty of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, has 
>> written strong poetic reproofs of the follies of war and the 
>> inevitability of death in his 19th collection of poetry.
>>
>> Q: These are not quiet meditations on the philosophy of war; rather, 
>> these are visceral, graphic, tossing-in-one’ssleep poems. Would you 
>> elaborate on your thought in a recent interview that you’ve “been 
>> trying for 30 years to figure out how best to put the news into poems 
>> — what other people would call politics”?
>>
>> A: It doesn’t seem enough to me for poetry to be a graph of the mind, 
>> an experiment in language, or an aesthetic expression of emotion. The 
>> problem? Overt political content tends to overwhelm the poem so that 
>> it lacks insistent form and/or the complexity of the human condition
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