Marvin Bell

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Marvin Bell (born 1937) is an American poet.

He wrote notable books of poems called "The Book of the Dead Man" and "Ardor: The Book of the Dead Man, Vol. 2." He also taught for many years at the Iowa Writers' Workshop where he is an emeritus faculty member. He has written 16 books of poetry.

Bell was born in New York City. He earned his bachelor's degree from Alfred University, master's degree from the University of Chicago, and MFA from the University of Iowa.

[edit] Honors

• American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature
• Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships
• Senior Fulbright appointments to Yugoslavia and Australia
• Flannery O'Connor Professor of Letters at the University of Iowa
• Iowa's first Poet Laureate

[edit] Bibliography

• Wednesday: Selected Poems 1966-1997, Salmon Publishing (Ireland), 1998.
• Poetry for a Midsummer's Night, Seventy Fourth Street Productions (Seattle), 1998.
• Ardor: The Book of the Dead Man, Vol. 2 (poems), Copper Canyon Press, 1997.
• A Marvin Bell Reader (selected prose and poetry), Middlebury College Press/University Press of New England, 1994.
• The Book of the Dead Man (poems), Copper Canyon Press, 1994.
• Iris of Creation (poems), Copper Canyon Press, 1990.
• New and Selected Poems, Athenaeum, 1987.
• Drawn by Stones, by Earth, by Things That Have Been in the Fire (poems), Athenaeum, 1984.
• These Green-Going-to-Yellow (poems), Athenaeum, 1981.
• Stars Which See, Stars Which Do Not See (poems), Athenaeum, 1977. (Reissued, Carnegie Mellon Classic Contemporary Series, 1992.)
• Residue of Song (poems), Athenaeum, 1974.
• The Escape into You (poems), Athenaeum, 1971. (Reissued, Carnegie Mellon Classic Contemporary Series, 1994.)
• A Probable Volume of Dreams (poems), Athenaeum, 1969.
• Things We Dreamt We Died For (poems), Stone Wall Press, 1966.
• Segues: A Correspondence in Poetry (co-authored with William Stafford), David R. Godine, Publisher, 1983.
• Old Snow Just Melting: Essays and Interviews, U. of Michigan Press, 1983.

[edit] External links

• Academy of American Poets: Marvin Bell
• The Poetry Kit: "The Poetry Kit Interviews Marvin Bell"
• Marvin Bell's Dead Man Camouflage Poem [1]
• Marvin Bell's "Why Do You Stay Up So Late" with animation by Ernesto Lavandera [2]

Copper Canyon Press http://www.coppercanyonpress.org