From the rear cover
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
- Pages 90
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend, WA
- Date 1993-01
- ISBN 9781556590627 / 1556590628
- Weight 0.77 lbs (0.35 kg)
- Dimensions 9.29 x 6.26 x 0.54 in (23.60 x 15.90 x 1.37 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 93043415
- Dewey Decimal Code 811.54
Media reviews
Citations
- Booklist, 04/01/1994, Page 0
- Publishers Weekly, 02/14/1994, Page 0
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