Remains to Be Seen

Released on by Halvard Johnson
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  • Remains to Be Seen Book Detail

  • Author : Halvard Johnson
  • Release Date : 2013
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  • Genre : Poetry
  • Pages : 197
  • ISBN 13 : 9781933132785
  • File Size : 2,2 MB
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Remains to Be Seen by Halvard Johnson PDF Summary

Book Description: Poetry. "Probably everyone who reads poetry year after year knows of a favorite poet whose reputation should be larger than it is, and my candidate for that position is Halvard Johnson. I am not alone in this opinion. The first time I met James Wright, we talked about poets whose work we felt should be better known, and I mentioned Halvard Johnson. Wright nodded silently, sat back, and recited from memory the whole of Hal's poem 'Black River Bridge.' "Hal Johnson's work is remarkable for its intelligence, its perfect tuning (he has a remarkable ear for line-cadences), great thoughtfulness and wit, and its ability to surprise, to take unexpected turns. Without solemnity, Hal conjures up a mysterious, disturbing world in his poetry, a world in which fantasies and meditations are interchanged with actions and concrete details. One constantly feels in his work the sense of the known and the knowable slipping away, and in this respect, and in its refusal to be pinned down, Hal's work has some similarities to John Ashbery's. "But in other respects his work is like no one else's. I have been personally affected by many of his poems, including 'Winter Journey,' the title poem of one of his collections. This long narrative poem, which is also a meditation on recent American history, touches upon culture, consciousness, and fantasy at their meeting-points; it is also, I think, about the nature of accidents. I consider it a profound and moving poem, one that can stand with the best of recent American poetry."—Charles Baxter

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Poetry. "Probably everyone who reads poetry year after year knows of a favorite poet whose reputation should be larger than it is, and my candidate for that pos