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The end of an interview with Venezuelan poet Igor Barreto. He talks about the six years he spent as a cinematography student in Romania and about his meeting with Martin Sorescu, a Romanian poet who inspired the name of his book, Soy el muchacho más hermoso de esta ciudad. He also discusses Venezuelan poetry and reads poems from his various books.
Esteban Peicovich talks with Argentine writer Irina Bogdachevsky about her work translating poems of three Argentine poets (Olga Orozco, Juan Gelman, and Mario Porro) and one Uruguayan poet (Idea Vilariño) from Spanish to Russian and vice versa. Bogdachevsky talks about the state of Russian literature in the last years and describes the different political situations that took place for many Russian writers.
Esteban Peicovich and Irina Bogdachevsky continue their interview in La Plata. They talk about the great Russian poets including Pushkin, Lermontov, Fet, Koltsov, Solovyov, Bely, Blok, Mayakovsky, Esenin, Tsvetaeva, Okudzhava, Akhmatova, Akhmadulina, Khlebnikov, Pasternak, Tarkowski, Brodsky and Nabokov, and the different movements they represented. Some of the movements discussed are the Russian symbolism, futuristic and acmeism movements. During the interview Bogdachevsky reads poems she translated from Russian to Spanish and vice versa.
During his interview with Esteban Peicovich, Isidoro Blaisten talks about what a poet is, his literary works, his workshops on literary writing, his beginnings as a writer and writers who influenced his works. Blaisten mainly focuses on his latest book, Cuando éramos felices, which he describes as a combination of autobiography, short stories and views on literature in Argentina. Some of his short stories were inspired by the many different jobs he had as graphic novelist, publishing writer, journalist, photographer and bookseller. Throughout the interview, Blaisten reads several of his short stories and poems.
James Wade, U.S. Army, WW II (Interviewed Aug.6, 2009) James Wade arrived in Europe and there was only two more months of fighting and left in World War II. But in that short time, plus the time he spent there in occupational duty, he saw plenty of what now you read about in history books. That included serving guard duty over the witnesses of the Nuremberg trials. The stories don't in there. Here is James Wade of College Station.
Jim West, U.S. Marines, Vietnam (Interviewed April 26, 2006) Look up Marine in the dictionary and you might just see a picture of Jim West. Well you certainly should. This former Madisonville Police Chiefs spent nearly 3 years as a ground fighter in Vietnam. Jim West was not a spit-and-polish kind of Marine at all. He was a fighter who didn't mind bending a rule or two if it meant protecting his fellow Marines. If it weren't for those wounds he suffered 30 years ago he said that even at the age of 66 he'd volunteered to fight in Iraq. Sadly within a month of our interview Jim West died after suffering a rattlesnake bite on his own ranch.
James Woodall, Navy/Army, Korea/Vietnam (A&M Class of 1950) (Interviewed January 17, 2008) James Woodall tried to enlist at the age of 15, even as a youth raising money to help the British fight off the Germans. He did enlist in the Navy Reserves in 1947 and retired in 1982, a 35 year military career that took him to Germany, Korea, Vietnam, and the Army War College in Pennsylvania. He was Commandant of the A&M Corp of Cadets until his retirement.
Jorge Accame and Esteban Peicovich discuss Accame's book, Concierto de jazz, which was recently published at the time of this interview. This book is closely related to a previous book, Cuatro poetas. They take turns reading excerpts from these books.
During his interview with Esteban Peicovich, Jorge Boccanera talks about his poems, his birthplace (Bahía Blanca, Argentina), his beginnings as a writer, Luis Cardoza y Aragon (a Guatemalan writer that influenced his works), radio programs with Litto Nebia and Humberto Constantini, his poems as lyrics for famous Argentine singers and his life in Costa Rica. The last part of the interview is a discussion of Boccanera's book in progress about Juan Gelman and Gelman's literary works, his personality and other aspects of Gelman's life. Also during the interview poems are read by both Peicovich and Boccanera.
