This is a definite loss to Pound studies, and to the all too rare world
of collegiality in scholarship. And from what I knew of him, he seemed
like a good man too. A generous man. 

All the arts lose virtue against the essential reality of
Creatures going about their business among the 
Equally earnest elements of nature.
   Robinson Jeffers, "Boats in Fog"
 
 
Robert E. Kibler, Ass. Prof. English and Humanities
Director, Northern Plains Writing Project
Room 229 West, Hartnett Hall
Minot State University
500 University Blvd West
Minot, north Dakota 58707
701 858 3876
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From: - Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine
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Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 9:52 AM
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Subject: Announcement: Burt Hatlen passes away on 21 January 2008

Dear Poundians,

It is with great sadness that I send along the news to Poundians around
the globe that
my good friend and colleague Burt Hatlen passed away yesterday afternoon
(21 January
2008) at a Bangor, Maine hospital.  As many of you will know, Burt had
been undergoing
chemotherapy and was unable to fight off the pneumonia that brought him
to the hospital
a week or so ago.

At the time of his death, Burt was surrounded by family, including his
wife Virginia and
his daughters Julia and Inger.  Though the family wishes for privacy at
the moment, I am
certain that sympathy cards would be appreciated.  For those of you who
wish to write,
here is the address: Virginia Nees-Hatlen, 491A College Avenue, Orono,
Maine 04473.

Those of you who would like to say something about Burt and his life as
a scholar,
editor, conference organizer, friend and promoter of contemporary poets
and of younger
scholars may address their comments to me and I'll make sure that they
are presented to
Virginia and his daughters-better yet, such comments may be send to all
through this
list.
 
The family will have a private memorial, with a more public event
planned for this
summer or fall.  An obituary will be published in the Bangor Daily News
tomorrow or the
next day at http://www.bangordailynews.com/; it will include information
about Burt's
wishes for memorial donations.

I myself have known Burt for approximately twenty years and am very sad
to lose, above
all else, his good humor, his modest but sure way of representing
himself and his ideas
about literature, and-above all-his immense knowledge and range in
matters pertaining to
modernist and contemporary poetry.  In some important ways, he is
responsible for the
way we have been thinking about and discussing modernist and
contemporary poetry over
the past couple of decades.

Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos

Dr. Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos
A/Dean, School of Graduate Studies
Professor, Department of English
Book Review Editor, Paideuma: Studies in American and British Modernist
Poetry
University of New Brunswick
Sir Howard Douglas Hall, Room 317
3 Bailey Drive
Fredericton, N.B.
Canada E3B 5A3
Tel.: 506-453-4673
Fax: 506-453-4817
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