Iris Of Creation.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Bell, Marvin, 1937-2020.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• American poetry--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Port Townsend : Copper Canyon Press, 1990.

Summary:

Marvin Bell's poems often begin where personal, philosophical, and political experiences intersect. His quirky, lively imagination and idiomatic language admit a plethora of influences and experiences, articulating the need for perpetual transformation from within. His poems spring from the meeting of the sacred and the profane, the mundane and the phenomenal, often lending definition to those qualities of life which most defy definition.

Contents:

• Dark brow
• A man may change
• An old trembling - Nature
• He had a good year
• Icarus thought
• Victim of himself - Ice
• Meditation on dust
• Comb and rake
• Lawn sprawled out like a dog
• Tie-down of a bonsai
• 3 horses facing the Saskatchewan sun
• The plague
• Sevens (version 3) : in the closed iris of creation
• After tu fu ("They say you're staying in a mountain temple")
• I, or someone like me
• On location
• Marco Polo
• Tall ships
• Ode to a candle
• Frankenstein's monster
• A primer about the flag
• Washing our hands of the rest of America
• Spot six differences
• Schools of little fish
• Language without miracles
• Cargo moving to Gaza (1988)
• Sweeping up at closing time
• How he grew up
• The big slick
• from "The Book Of The Dead Man"
• The retaliatarians
• Big day in Santa Fe
• If I had one thing to say
• An elegy for the past
• I shed my blood on unimportant battlefields
• I will not be claimed
• Portrait
• By the Iowa
• Street fair : the quartet
• The body breaking
• Not joining the wars
• An American anthem
• The bow
• Darts
• A plot
• Poem after Carlos Drummond De Andrade
• Initial conditions.

Notes:

Preliminaries omitted.