The Book of the Dead Man
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.
- Author
- Marvin Bell
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 80
- Publisher
- Copper Canyon Press
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9781556590634
- Genres
- poetry
- Release date
- 1993
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