Vertigo: The Living Dead Man Poems Contributor(s): Bell, Marvin (Author) |
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ISBN: 1556593767 ISBN-13: 9781556593765 Publisher: Copper Canyon Press OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2011 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
Dewey: 811.54 |
LCCN: 2011001406 |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.9" W x 9.4" (0.65 lbs) 120 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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 poets, and his legacy includes the invention of a startling poetic form called the Dead Man poems. The Dead Man is alive and dead at once: not a persona, but an overarching consciousness, embedded in poetics and philosophy. Vertigo is the latest from the Dead Man--a brilliant, enigmatic, wise, and wild book. The dead man stands still, waiting for the boomerang to--you know. Marvin Bell has published seventeen books of poetry and has received numerous honors, including the Lamont Award and Senior Fulbright appointments to Yugoslavia and Australia. He taught for forty years at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and was the first State Poet of Iowa. He lives in Iowa and Washington. |