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From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Halvard Johnson
Sent: 11 August 2007 18:14
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Subject: Re: Organ Harvest
Sixty would be closer, Anny. But I contain more than sixty,
multitudes, in fact.
Hal (#6457)
"Imagination is more important
than knowledge."
--Albert Einstein
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On Aug 11, 2007, at 11:51 AM, Anny Ballardini wrote:
> I am starting to believe that there are at least six Hals, they all
> sign
> with the same name but they are different people.
>
> On 8/11/07, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> Speaking of books suddenly appearing in one's mailbox, I received
>> Halvard Johnson's Organ Harvest with Entrance of Clones yesterday,
>> & a
>> bright bitter sardonic tonic it is.
>>
>> People here know Hal's Sonnets, many of which appear here, but there
>> are also longer poems, poetic sequences, in various forms. Many
>> harvest
>> various texts, dialects & discourses, all to undermine expectations.
>> Sharply etched, & often beautifully illustrating the vagaries of the
>> 'I' (which we were discussing before I went on vacation), these poems
>> exemplify a USAmerican surreality crashing into the politics of being
>> here, now.
>>
>> Certainly a book worth tracking down....
>>
>> Doug
>> Douglas Barbour
>> 11655 - 72 Avenue NW
>> Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9
>> (780) 436 3320
>> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
>>
>> Latest book: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
>> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
>>
>>
>> There must be five hundred signed copies
>> for particular friends; six for the general
>> public; and one for America.
>>
>> Oscar Wilde
>>
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