The Book of the Dead Man by Bell, Marvin

The Book of the Dead Man (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781556590634)

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The Book of the Dead Man by Bell, Marvin

The Book of the Dead Man

$15.00
The Book of the Dead Man by Bell, Marvin

The Book of the Dead Man

$15.00
Format: Paperback
Description
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Marvin Bell's ninth major collection of poems is groundbreaking, his most provocative and imaginative work to date. The phrase the dead man resounds throughout like a drumbeat registering the wisdom and genius of ignorance, fallibility, and mutability with a Zen-like detachment. Defying paraphrase, Bell's new poems demand to be understood in the context of the incantatory line as he illuminates the transcendent inscape in its moment of self-revelation. The Book of the Dead Man demolishes boundaries between lyric poetry and serio-comic intensity, and announces a poetics of striking spiritual candor.

Author: Marvin Bell
ISBN-10: 1556590636
ISBN-13: 9781556590634
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1993
Pages: 80
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.08w x 0.27d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 03/15/1994 pg. 1322
Booklist 04/01/1994 pg. 1418
Publishers Weekly 02/07/1994 pg. 84
By Marvin Bell
By Marvin Bell
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Marvin Bell, author of fifteen volumes of poetry and prose, is a distinguished poet and influential teacher who for the past 35 years has served as a faculty member at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. In 2000, the State of Iowa named him its first Poet Laureate.

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