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Rampant : poems / Marvin Bell.
Van Pelt Library PS3552.E52 R36 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bell, Marvin, 1937-2020.
- Language:
- English
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 67 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press, [2004]
- Summary:
- Marvin Bell's uninhibited imagination and often gritty curiosity have always taken on wildly diverse subjects. In these new poems he ventures far and near, from war in the Middle East and famine in Sudan, to surfing in Hawaii, and life in Catatonia. In Rampant, the ancient Greeks are at the horizon, the crab boats are tethered to the pier, Louis Braille is being re-entombed, Vaccination Day has arrived, and parasites discuss us in the future. Bell has said he "likes ideas to have a little dirt on their shoes." By the conclusion of Rampant, his shoes are well-traveled through a ten-part suite, "Journal of the Posthumous Present," a natural extension of his celebrated "Dead Man" poems. Remarkable for its formal approach and its sociophilosophical investigation of contemporary life, it is simultaneously groundbreaking and characteristic of this unique poet's long, distinguished career.
- Contents:
- In Beirut, at the worst of it
- Eyelashes, doorknob and pen
- Nature morte?
- Specific to oahu
- Boys walking
- Meditation
- Deluge
- The new world
- Winter in Sitges
- Of a student
- The troubling
- By all accounts : a drowning
- Amsterdam, the dam
- The castle
- Paris, Bastille Day 2002
- Louis Braille
- Vaccination day
- A lesson from the corps
- Future talk
- Resolving the cold
- Catalog with illustrations
- A sky
- Another primer about the flag
- Around us
- Exotica
- Catatonia
- Ashes poetica
- Portal
- Extravaganza : dismal water of the swamp
- Rampant
- He sees himself
- Epithalamium
- The parabolic curve of the red stem of a dandelion gone to seed
- Typesetting The odyssey
- It's who I am
- The bones repeat themselves from the bottom upward
- Ulysses, too, was sometimes down at heart
- Persistent memory
- Bright lights of January
- View
- Pastiche
- Journal of the posthumous present.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 155659206X
- OCLC:
- 53276286
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