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The Book of the Dead Man Paperback - 1993

by Marvin Bell


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Marvin Bell's ninth major collection of poems is groundbreaking, his most provocative and imaginative work to date. The phrase the dead man resounds throughout like a drumbeat registering the wisdom and genius of ignorance, fallibility, and mutability with a Zen-like detachment. Defying paraphrase, Bell's new poems demand to be understood in the context of the incantatory line as he illuminates the transcendent inscape in its moment of self-revelation. The Book of the Dead Man demolishes boundaries between lyric poetry and serio-comic intensity, and announces a poetics of striking spiritual candor.

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Marvin Bell's ninth major collection of poems is groundbreaking, his most provocative and imaginative work to date. The phrase "the dead man" resounds throughout like a drumbeat registering the wisdom and genius of ignorance, fallibility, and mutability with a Zen-like detachment. Defying paraphrase, Bell's new poems demand to be understood in the context of the incantatory line as he illuminates the transcendent inscape in its moment of self-revelation. The Book of the Dead Man demolishes boundaries between lyric poetry and serio-comic intensity, and announces a poetics of striking spiritual candor.

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  • Title The Book of the Dead Man
  • Author Marvin Bell
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First edition
  • Pages 80
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend, WA
  • Date 1993-01
  • ISBN 9781556590634 / 1556590636
  • Weight 0.35 lbs (0.16 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.04 x 6.08 x 0.27 in (22.96 x 15.44 x 0.69 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 93-43415
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.54

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Citations

  • Booklist, 03/15/1994, Page 1322
  • Publishers Weekly, 02/07/1994, Page 84

About the author

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.
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