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

[Halvard Johnson]

And some of them are here--

http://www.poetsagainstthewar.org/default.asp

Hal

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On Nov 6, 2007, at 4:28 PM, Halvard Johnson wrote:

> 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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