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Continuation of an interview with Argentinian poet Edgar Bayley. He talks about the origin of his name, his family and childhood memories, and some of the poets who influenced his life. He also talks about discusses poetry in general and the process behind writing poems. He also reads several of his poems.
Felix J. Alvarez was an early participant of the Chicano Movement and an early member of El Teatro Campesino. The purpose of this interview was to better understand mestizaje ideology and its popularity during the height of the Chicano Movement. Alvarez discusses his participation within the Chicano Movement and his understanding of the concept of mestizaje.
Freddie Wolters, U.S. Army, World War II (A&M Class of 1944) (Interviewed April 10, 2008) Freddie Wolters served in the Pacific Theater during World War II. The bomb was dropped on Hiroshima before his unit would have been deployed for a bloody ground fight, but still he has stories to tell, many of how he didn't always do things by the book. He was a freshman member of Homer Norton's 1940 A&M football team.
Venezuelan poet Igor Barreto talks about his book, Soy el muchacho más hermoso de esta ciudad. He describes his how he aims as a poet to portray natural landscapes in a more realistic, less romantic way. He also describes the six years he spent in Bucarest, Romania, studying cinematography and drama, where he met Marin Sorescu, a Romanian poet. Throughout the interview, Barreto reads poems from his various books.
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.
