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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 >