[New-Poetry] Re: Where are the war poets?

[Halvard Johnson]

Try Keith Wilson's Grave Registry (Grove Press),
Midwatch (Sumac?) or the expanded version of
those more recently out from a press the name of
which escapes me (I think it's in Montana). Very
good Korean War (ahem, Police Action) work.

Hal

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On Nov 6, 2007, at 9:05 AM, Richard Wilsnack wrote:

> Sam Gwynn wrote,
>
> "If a poet wants to get across the reality of a contemporary war (as  
> Turner does) there is the huge stumbling block of instantaneous  
> media coverage.  Still, this doesn't explain the absence of Korean  
> War poetry, which certainly provided enough amazing imagery (those  
> shit-fertilized rice fields) to inspire my junior high school  
> teachers (who were of that generation) but not the poets."
>
> There is an anthology titled Retrieving Bones: Stories and Poems of  
> the Korean War, edited by W. D. Erhart & Philip K. Jason (Rutgers  
> University Press, 1999), which includes poems by William Childress,  
> Rolando Hinojosa, James Magner Jr., Reg Saner, William Wantling, and  
> Keith Wilson. I don't have access to a copy, so I don't know about  
> how directly the poems relate to the war, but it might be worth the  
> effort to track down a copy of the book.
>
> Richard W. Wilsnack
> rwilsnac at medicine.nodak.edu
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