[New-Poetry] Marvin Bell interviewed

[Sigauke, Emmanuel]

He gave a good interview; thank for the link.

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http://www.bellinghamherald.com/lifestyle/story/150322.html

Poet Marvin Bell's work has been compared to Walt Whitman
Writer reflects on war, death in latest volume
 
MARVIN BELL
"Mars Being Red"
7 p.m. next Thursday, Aug. 16
Village Books, 1200 11th St., 671-2626
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MARGARET BIKMAN
THE BELLINGHAM HERALD
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Marvin Bell, 70, the first Poet Laureate of Iowa, and now retired after 40 years on the faculty of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, has written strong poetic reproofs of the follies of war and the inevitability of death in his 19th collection of poetry.

Q: These are not quiet meditations on the philosophy of war; rather, these are visceral, graphic, tossing-in-one'ssleep poems. Would you elaborate on your thought in a recent interview that you've "been trying for 30 years to figure out how best to put the news into poems - what other people would call politics"?

A: It doesn't seem enough to me for poetry to be a graph of the mind, an experiment in language, or an aesthetic expression of emotion. The problem? Overt political content tends to overwhelm the poem so that it lacks insistent form and/or the complexity of the human condition

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