Halvard Johnson


PUBLICATIONS

Coming attractions:

   Fall 2007

             Organ Harvest with Entrance of Clones   
               
from Hamilton Stone Editions

Featured attractions:

   Recent books and chapbooks--

                Tango Bouquet   (2007)

                      Available from author upon email request. Specify format: pdf or doc;
                      and please include Tango Bouquet in your subject line. Also downloadable
                      at Anny Ballardini's Poets' Corner. No charge either way.

                Guide to the Tokyo Subway (2006)
                      at Amazon, B&N, and other sites, as well as at
                      Hamilton Stone Editions

                The English Lesson (2004)
                        Now available from Unicorn Press (3019 Branderwood Dr.,
                        Greensboro NC 27406-4907)
                                     --limited edition of 100 signed and numbered copies

                Theory of Harmony (2004)
                        Available at xPress(ed)

                Coyote's Engines (2004)
                        Formerly available at PoeticInhalation [defunct]
                        Now available from the author

                The Sonnet Project (2004)
                        Available at xPress(ed)                

                Changing the Subject
(2004) (in collaboration with James Cervantes),
                      
                        published by Red Hen Press. Partly available online at
                        The Blue Moon Review.

               Rapsodie espagnole  (2003)
                        Available at xPress(ed)
                        See review by Ron Silliman

                G(e)nome (2003)
                        Available at xPress(ed)

 

Selected Short Subjects:

                "Uncollected Stories" (fiction) in Hamilton Stone Review #4

                "Family Travel" (fiction) in The Blue Penny Quarterly (now
                  The Blue Moon Review) #5, Fall 1995                

               "Second Soul" and "Gennady Goes to School" in  The Blue Moon Review

                "Calle de Sueños," "American Movie Classics," "Motorcade,"
                "Four Fragments after Lorca," "Entering the House,"  "Brunt,"
                "How to Be a Private Eye,"
"American  Movie Classics II,"
               
"Operative Light," "Samovar," "The Logician's Lament,"
                "Further Reading" in CrossConnect

                "Warm Symphonies," "Blonde Dying," "The Terror Debris,"
                "Brown Devotion," "La Violencia," "The Grassy Knoll,"
                "A Sensitive Girl," "World Without End," (poems) "Sundrift"
                 (fiction) in RealPoetik

                "Nachtmusik" and "Traces of Speech" in Poethia

                "Chicago" and "Americans Playing Slow-pitch Softball at an
                  Airbase near Kunsan, South Korea" in For Poetry

                "On the Red Line" in Riding the Meridian

                Several sections from Rapsodie espagnole, and "Parade"
                in Sugar Mule

                "Nimbus" and "Obligation" in Valparaiso Poetry Review

                "Soap," "Recompense," "Store Clerk in a Bookshop & Other
                  Felicities," "Reckless Talk for a Girl on the Lam," "Mosque,"
                "The Vanity of Purely Random Taxis," "Phantasmagoria,"
                "Ocean of Rust" in Salt River Review

                "How to Write Your Own Obituary" in Snakeskin

                "3 Sentences Beginning with S," "Private Rooms in the City,"
                "Violins, Violence, Silence," "3 Sections from 'Rapsodie
                  espagnole" in Pares cum Parebus   (in English and Spanish)

                "Fuji" at Dream Wine

                "Thrust," "Rapid Transit" in Tattoo Highway
 

BLOGS

Entropy & Me

Images w/o words


 

From the vaults:


Winter Journey, New Rivers Press, 1979--OP,
some copies available from author, archived online
at the Contemporary American Poetry Archive
 
 


Eclipse, New Rivers Press, 1974--OP, a few
copies available from author, archived online
at the Contemporary American Poetry Archive
 
 


The Dance of the Red Swan, New Rivers Press,
1971--OP, a few copies available from author, archived
online at the Contemporary American Poetry Archive
 
 


Transparencies & Projections, New Rivers Press, 1969--OP,
archived online at the Contemporary American Poetry Archive
 
 

 
Reviews:

    of  Halvard Johnson

Rapsodie espagnole by Ron Silliman
"Guide to the Tokyo Subway" in American Diaspora: Poems of Displacement
"The Vanity of Purely Random Taxis" in Salt River Review

    by Halvard Johnson

Light and Dust: Larry Eigner
Sojourner, So to Speak by Joseph Somoza
The Green Tuxedo by Janet Holmes
 

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