The Found Poetry of Lt. Col. Oliver L. North
North, Oliver L.; Hart III, John W
Shelf Life Press (1989)
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#5209
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Poet
chapbook 
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Nationality American
Pub Place Woodland Hills, CA
Dust Jacket no
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Conflict Persian Gulf
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4 copies found on WorldCat

"This is a book of found poetry from the sworn testimony of Oliver L. North. All the material ... was taken directly from the excerpts of his testimony to the Congress ... No words have been altered ..."--T.p. verso.

Hart, a 32-year-old insurance salesman from Santa Monica, Hart first put pen to paper in 1986 and three years later stumbled into national attention. In the aftermath of the congressional Iran-Contra hearings, he ferreted through hours of testimony by Lt. Col. Oliver North. Hart extracted portions and cast them as poems, such as "How to Deal With Iranians": These poems appeared everywhere from Harper's to the LA Weekly. The Los Angeles Reader labeled Hart "a unique stylist and a wry verse raconteur."

Oliver Laurence North (born October 7, 1943) is a former United States Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel, political commentator, television host, military historian, and New York Times best-selling author. North was at the center of national attention during the Iran–Contra affair, a political scandal of the late 1980s. North was a National Security Council staff member involved in the clandestine sale of weapons to Iran, which served to encourage the release of U.S. hostages from Lebanon. North formulated the second part of the plan: diverting proceeds from the arms sales to support the Contra rebel groups in Nicaragua (funding to the Contras had been prohibited under the Boland Amendment amidst widespread public opposition in the U.S. and controversies surrounding human rights abuses by the Contras). He is currently the host of War Stories with Oliver North on Fox News Channel.