The Book of the Dead Man
Will be published approx. on 18. February 1993
Book
Paperback/Softback
80 pages
978-1-55659-063-4 (ISBN)
Description
Celebrated poet Marvin Bell's ninth major collection of poems is his most provocative and imaginative to date. Exploring the wisdom and genius of ignorance, fallibility and mutability with Zen-like detachment, Bell's new poems respond to the admonition, “Live as if you were already dead."
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
159 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55659-063-4 (9781556590634)
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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.