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“marvin bell”

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  • Incarnate

    The Collected Dead Man Poems

    by Marvin Bell ...
    The Dead Man, Marvin Bell’s brilliant poetic invention, is an overarching consciousness, alive and dead at once, defeating time. Mystical and anonymous, The Dead Man offers searing insight into the joys, as well as the catastrophes, of fluctuating cultural and political moments. Incarnate draws from all of Bell’s previous collections where The Dead Man appeared, and adds an abundant cache of new ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Vertigo

    The Living Dead Man Poems

    by Marvin Bell ...
    "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 WeeklyMarvin 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 ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Mars Being Red

    by Marvin Bell ...
    “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 connected to overtly political poems.”Mars Being Red is the most political book of Bell’s storied career—and one of his ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Seven Poets, Four Days, One Book

    by Dean Young, Christopher Merrill, Marvin Bell, Tomaz Salamun, Simone Inguanez, Istvan Laszlo Geher, Ksenia Golubovich ...
    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 lines, which they would borrow to insert in subsequent poems of their own. These rounds continued, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Bender

    New and Selected Poems

    by Dean Young ...
    "In Young's work, the big essential questions-mortality, identity, the meaning of life-aren't simply food for thought; they're grounds for entertainment."-Toronto Star"Surrealism seldom seems as much like real life as in Young's hilarious and cautionary poems."-BooklistBender gathers a generous selection of new work along with treasure from Dean Young's twelve volumes. Strongly influenced by ... Read more

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  • Whiteout

    by George Murray ...
    Poetry that explores how accidental voyeurism can force reconsideration and reconciliationWhite⋅out: n. a surface condition … in which no object casts a shadow, the horizon cannot be seen, and only dark objects are discernible …Whiteout: when the heavy weather of daily life establishes the measure of the measureless; when the predatory nature of the accidental conjures cowboys and the comatose; ... Read more

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  • On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths

    by Lucia Perillo ...
    "Perillo's poetic persona is funny, tough, bold, smart, and righteous. A spellbinding storyteller and a poet who makes the demands of the form seem as natural as a handshake, she pulls readers into the beat and whirl of her slyly devastating descriptions."-Booklist"Whoever told you poetry isn't for everyone hasn't read Lucia Perillo. She writes accessible, often funny poems that border on the ... Read more

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  • Special Effects

    by Sue Binder ...
    Ever have trouble remembering a password for a computer program? Or trying to balance a checkbook? The first section of this fun/serious/futuristic book of poetry offers up a number of humorous topics, then moves easily into serious topics, such as domestic violence, illness, even death. Finally, the poems gravitate into a bleak, almost apocalyptic future, focused on topics such as overdependence ... Read more

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  • In Defense of Nothing

    Selected Poems, 1987–2011

    by Peter Gizzi ...
    Series series Wesleyan Poetry Series
    Finalist for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize (2015)Since his celebrated first book of poetry, Peter Gizzi has been hailed as one of the most significant and distinctive voices writing today. Gathered from over five collections, and representing close to twenty-five years of work, the poems in this generous selection strike a dynamic balance of honesty, emotion, intellectual depth and otherworldly ... Read more

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  • Time Will Clean the Carcass Bones

    Selected and New Poems

    by Lucia Perillo ...
    "Perillo's poetic persona is funny, tough, bold, smart, and righteous. A spellbinding storyteller and a poet who makes the demands of the form seem as natural as a handshake."—Booklist"The poems [are] taut, lucid, lyric, filled with complex emotional reflection while avoiding the usual difficulties of highbrow poetry."—The New York Times Book ReviewMacArthur Genius Award winner Lucia Perillo is a ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Anagrams for Crosswords

    A Collection of Word Anagrams

    by Dr Annavarapu Gopalakrishna ...
    Even the manliest will suffer from ailments Sweat imparts body odour to armpits He has money aplenty to pay the penalty When education is auctioned and teachers become cheaters, naturally the student will be stunted Does the lameness of nameless salesmen affect their maleness? The gardener garnered the crop The getaway car was parked near the gateway When the designer was asked to redesign, he ... Read more

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  • To See the Earth Before the End of the World

    by Ed Roberson ...
    Series series Wesleyan Poetry Series
    Winner of the Voelcker Award (PEN America) (2016)In To See the Earth Before the End of the World Ed Roberson presents us with 120 new poems, each speaking in his unique voice and seen through his unique eye. Earth and sky, neighborhood life and ancient myths, the art of seeing and the architecture of the imagination are all among the subjects of these poems. Recurring images and ideas construct a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD