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Sent: 04 July 2011 19:19
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Subject: Re: 4 the 4th
Think WWII, Barry.
"Reality cannot be copywrited."
--David Shields
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On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> Thanks for the clarification, Hal. I'm not sure I would have identified
> the you I've been reading for the last 10 years or so as the author of DEAD
> MAN'S FLOAT. Am I accurate when I identify that war as the one in Korea?
> Initially I assumed Vietnam, but then biographical analysis came into play.
> Barry
>
>
> On Mon, 4 Jul 2011 10:02:33 -0500, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> >I'm too young to have memories, Andrew. Besides, I wrote that one at least
> >forty years ago, when my memory still worked.
> >
> >
> >"Reality cannot be copywrited."
> > --David Shields
> >
> >Hal
> >
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> >*Mainly Black<
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> >
> >, **Obras P�blicas<
> https://sites.google.com/site/vidalocabooks/halvard-johnson-obras-publicas
> >
> >; **The Perfection of Mozart's Third Eye and Other
> >Sonnets<
> http://www.scribd.com/doc/27039868/Halvard-Johnson-THE-PERFECTION-OF-MOZART-S-THIRD-EYE-Other-Sonnets
> >
> >;*
> >*Organ Harvest with Entrance of
> >Clones<
> http://www.amazon.com/Harvest-Entrance-Clones-Halvard-Johnson/dp/0965404390/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1283182804&sr=8-1
> >
> >; **Tango Bouquet<
> https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ATDp6rzKkBkhZGZwand2cHdfOWc1Mnh3Zw&hl=en
> >
> >; **Theory of Harmony<
> https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/fall04/theory1.pdf
> >
> >; *
> >***Rapsodie espagnole<
> https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/rapsodi.pdf
> >
> >; **Guide to the Tokyo
> >Subway<
> http://www.amazon.com/Guide-Tokyo-Subway-Other-Poems/dp/0971487316/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1283183153&sr=1-3
> >
> >; **The Sonnet Project<
> https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/hsonnet.pdf
> >
> >; *
> >***G(e)nome <http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/fall03/genome.pdf>; **Winter
> >Journey <http://capa.conncoll.edu/johnson.winter.html>;
> >**Eclipse<http://capa.conncoll.edu/johnson.eclipse.html>
> >; **The Dance of the Red Swan <
> http://capa.conncoll.edu/johnson.dance.html>;
> >*
> >*Transparencies & Projections <
> http://capa.conncoll.edu/johnson.transp.html>
> >*
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 9:37 AM, andrew burke <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Fine start - Is there more? Some trickle of memories would provide some
> >> more
> >> rich poems, methinks. Andrew
> >>
> >> On 4 July 2011 21:28, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>
> >> > *Dead Man's Float*
> >> >
> >> > milwaukee, wisconsin. sometime
> >> > near the beginning of the war.
> >> > a 4th of july parade, amid news
> >> > paper reports of bodies found
> >> > dismembered, dumped in trashcans
> >> > along the lake michigan beaches.
> >> >
> >> > we decorate our tricycles
> >> > with fireproof red white & blue
> >> > streamers. we pump along the route,
> >> > waving our flags, grinning
> >> > at patriot parents. later
> >> >
> >> > that summer i fell in a lake
> >> > & survived. my too-old-for-the-war
> >> > uncle began to teach me to swim.
> >> > arms out. legs out. face
> >> > in the water, holding my breath:
> >> > learning to live, practicing death.
>
