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 poems that resonate with “the dark matter and sticky stuff” of life. As David St. John writes in his...
– Marvin Bell one of the leading poets in America – long-time teacher at Iowa Writer’s Workshop, one of the country’s foremost writing programs – first poet laureate of Iowa (2000-2004) – Bell’s last book, Rampant, was very well reviewed, including cover feature in American Poetry Review and review in New York Times – includes several new “Dead Man” poems, for which Bell is both famous and infamous – most political book of Bell’s...
"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:...
