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Pop's Great Bermuda Adventure

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Pop's Great Bermuda AdventureThese are the diary entries and letters written by James Newton Wallace (Google Newton Wallace, Winters Express). Who has spent over 80 years in journalism and is currently known as The Worlds Oldest Newspaper Boy. At 94 years of age, he continues to deliver his newspaper. These writings were written between 1942 and 1943 from Bermuda. Through candid personal observations, an understanding is gained of what the war cost both personally and as a

These are the diary entries and letters written by James Newton Wallace (Google Newton Wallace, Winters Express). Who has spent over 80 years in journalism and is currently known as ÒThe WorldÕs Oldest Newspaper BoyÓ. At 94 years of age, he continues to deliver his newspaper.
These writings were written between 1942 and 1943 from Bermuda. Through candid personal observations, an understanding is gained of what the war cost both personally and as a country. In addition, there are many insightful observations about the various people involved in the effort at Bermuda.
The letters also give us a good look at the moral, ethical, and racial viewpoints of the time period.
If nothing else, the letters are quite entertaining as they paint the picture of the Dredge workers who drank, gamed, and fought their way through the building of the Airfield.

At the same time, a love story develops between POP and the College Sweetheart he would marry.

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Sublime Poetry Slightly Flawed by Format
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I hate to give this work anything less than 5-stars, because at the moment (and probably most future moments) I revere James Wright's poetry. He makes blue collar blackened river Ohio come alive riven death with darkness and life. So this book is a must for poetry lovers. Where it distracts me is the attempts at completeness is a difficult editor's dilemma and one that doesn't serve the poet or the poet's reader well here. There are two James Wright's out there (this book presents three), as is true with most sublimated artist that pass through a learning phase before hitting on their voice, their style. James Wright started as a formalist (not my favored style) hailing structure and rhyme sometimes at the expense of meaning and language (disclaimer...one man's humble opinion belies a personal taste and no two taste buds seem the same). The book of course being a complete work, offers all of those poems of bandied prose. And then the editor offers a bridge or break of sorts in Wright's translated works of German and Spanish poets. Wright was a great poet in English, but the gift of gifted translation should have been left to the likes of W.S. Merwin, Anthony Kerrigan, Charles Tomlinson, and Stephen Mitchell for Neruda, Paz, and Rilke. So, Wright's "Above the River," really first breaks the surface on page 119 after his epiphany to all thing free form. It is then that his poetry sings darkly. I leave you with some of Wright's beautiful language (there's plenty to be had). Buy the book for the rest. In Fear of Harvests It has happened Before: nearby, The nostrils of slow horses Breathe evenly, And the brown bees drag their high garlands, Heavily, Toward hives of snow.
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Jeffrey Tedford
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A Twentieth Century Teasure
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James Wright's poems are acts of courage. His persistent advocacy of the underdog is real and clear-eyed(American Twilights 1957, written fo the executed killer Caryl Chessman). "Arrangements with Earth for Three Dead Friends" is one of the most moving elegies I know in the language (taken from his early career). Then there are the wonderful and luminous translations "ten Short Poems: from the Spanish of Juan Ramon Jiminez, Pablo Neruda's "Anguish of Death", Cesar Vallejo's "I Am Freed" and many others. These are vital and wide-ranging poems that belong in every library.
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Wow! Wright Rocks!
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This collection brings together both the greater & lesser known works of James Wright so that students or lovers of poetry can get a true feeling for his style & focus. Some pieces seem less focused, while others hone in with cruel beauty on those moments where the literal and the figurative worlds collide. Brilliant poet. I recommend this book especially to serious students of poetry.
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A complete collection of Wright's poems
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Am enjoying reading Wright's poems.
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