[New-Poetry] Marvin Bell interviewed

[Halvard Johnson]

Honored, of course.

Hal

"No passion in the world is equal to
  the passion to alter someone else's draft."
		--H. G. Wells

Halvard Johnson
================
halvard at earthlink.net
http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/index.html
http://entropyandme.blogspot.com
http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com
http://www.hamiltonstone.org
http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/vidalocabooks.html


On Aug 10, 2007, at 10:24 AM, TheOldMole wrote:

> 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
>>
>> Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.
>>
>> Halvard Johnson
>> ================
>> halvard at earthlink.net <mailto:halvard at earthlink.net>
>> http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/index.html <http:// 
>> home.earthlink.net/%7Ehalvard/index.html>
>> http://entropyandme.blogspot.com http:// 
>> imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com
>> http://www.hamiltonstone.org
>> http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/vidalocabooks.html
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Aug 9, 2007, at 5:35 PM, jforjames at aol.com  
>> <mailto:jforjames at aol.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>>> ------------
>>> MARGARET BIKMAN
>>> THE BELLINGHAM HERALD
>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>>> ------------
>>> 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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