
Mars Being Red
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"Marvin Bell has the largest heart since Walt Whitman."-Harvard Review
In a recent interview Marvin Bell said, "I've been trying for thirty years to figure out how best to put the news into poems-what other people would call politics. But there are some hairy aesthetic questions connected to overtly political poems."
Mars Being Red is the most political book of Bell's storied career-and one of his most beautiful. Infuriated by our country's military aggression and destructive politics, Bell asks, What shall we do, we who are at war but are asked / to pretend we are not? What Bell has done is craft a book of urgency and insight, anger and action:
. . . I am, like you, a witness to the coffins that were Viet Nam and Iraq, to a political machine that came up three lemons . . . I am the big ears and the wide eyes to whom time happened. I lived in stormy weather writing songs of love because, tell me if you know, who can help it?
Marvin Bell served on the faculty at the Iowa Writers' Workshop for over thirty years. He is the first and current poet laureate of Iowa.
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- Intro
- CONTENTS
- Prodigal?
- I Didn't Sleep
- The Method
- The Poems I Want to Hear
- The Book of the Dead Man (Writing the Dead Man Poem)
- Poseur
- Coffee
- Bagram, Afghanistan, 2002
- Archaic Apollo
- Theory of Relativity (Political)
- Stupid Time
- American Winter 2006
- Cable News Night
- Messy
- What Things Are
- Hard Times for Army Recruiters
- The Campus in Wartime
- Assisted Living Quarters
- The Book of the Dead Man (Memory)
- Mirror Image
- Elegy for Jim Simmerman, with a Call to Michael Burkard
- Slice of Life
- People Walking in Fog
- Mars Being Red
- CQ
- Homeland Security
- Art in Wartime
- Deadline
- Fifteen Minutes
- Unable to Sleep in Frost's Bed in Franconia
- Dream of a Dream
- Her Shyness
- Doo-Wop
- Poem Post-9/11/01
- "Why Do You Stay Up So Late?"
- The Broken Rose
- Ode to Night
- Days of Superman
- Five to Seven
- Art Shoes
- An Apology to the Vietnamese and Iraqis
- Bus Stop Essay on Rampant Capitalism
- Ordinary
- It
- About His Eyes
- The Book of the Dead Man (Ghosts)
- Geezers
- Stubby Sag Harbor Sonnet
- The Book of the Dead Man (Recent Dreams)
- First-Generation American, Now the News
- Yes
- "Astronomers May Have Reason for Milky Way's 'Lumpiness'"
- Regardless
- West Coast Oceanic
- Veterans of the Seventies
- Oppression
- The Time I Tore My Kneecaps Off (La La)
- Weapons of Mass Destruction
- Why
- The Book of the Dead Man (Time)
- Bent
- About the Author
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