Marvin Bell: 3 books

“Marvin Bell has the largest heart since Walt Whitman.”—Harvard ReviewIn 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...

"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...

Lauded poet Christopher Merrill hatched a brilliant plan: invite six other poets to join him in four days of writing in Iowa City. The poets would write for 30 minutes, creating a poem of 15 lines, and then read it aloud to the group. As poets heard the poems, they noted memorable words, images, and...