
Incarnate
The Collected Dead Man Poems
Marvin Bell(Author)
Copper Canyon Press,U.S.
Will be published approx. on 12. December 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-1-55659-583-7 (ISBN)
Description
"Live as if you were already dead" is the Zen admonition animating Bell's brilliant poetic invention, Dead Man Poems. This volume draws from Bell's previous collections where The Dead Man appeared, and adds an abundant cache of new poems that resonate with "the dark matter and sticky stuff" of life.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
635 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55659-583-7 (9781556595837)
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Marvin Bell was born in New York City 1937, and raised in rural Long Island. He attended Alfred University and the University of Chicago. He enjoyed a long teaching career at the University of Iowa, where he influenced generations of poets and was the Flannery O'Connor Professor of Letters. Bell has published twenty-one volumes of poetry and served as Iowa's first Poet Laureate. He lives in Iowa City, Iowa and Port Townsend, Washington.