Results for "Bell, Marvin"

A moving, intensely political book from a poet whose "interrogations run deep." (Poetry)... Read More about Mars Being Red

The Dead Man, Marvin Bell's brilliant poetic invention, is an overarching consciousness, alive and dead at once, defeating time. Mystical and anonymous, The Dead Man offers searing insight into the joys, as well as the catastrophes, of fluctuating cultural and political moments. Incarnate draws from... Read More about Incarnate: The Collected Dead Man Poems

Marvin Bell, one of America's most influential, visible, and inventive poets, likes "ideas to have a little dirt on their shoes." His wildly original and often gritty curiosity finds inspiration in wide-ranging locales, and even wider topics. He will take on any subject in his poetry, and the conclu... Read More about Rampant: Poems (Lannan Literary Selections)

"Marvin Bell has the largest heart since Walt Whitman."--Harvard Review "One of our finest and most acclaimed poets."--Booklist "Charged with making the darkness visible, Bell's 'Dead Man' sometimes glows with an eerily illuminating light."--Publishers Weekly Marvin Bell is one of America's great po... Read More about Vertigo: The Living Dead Man Poems

Defiantly nontraditional poems by poet who has been called "an insider who thinks like an outsider.... Read More about Ardor: The Book of the Dead Man, Vol. 2