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

[Roger Day]

then they should be reading this:

http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/Gitmo-sop.pdf

Happy Reading.

Roger

On Nov 10, 2007 2:52 PM, Halvard Johnson <halvard at earthlink.net> wrote:
> And some of them are here--
>
> http://www.poetsagainstthewar.org/default.asp
>
> Hal
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> Halvard Johnson
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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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> Halvard Johnson
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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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