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.