[New-Poetry] Marvin Bell interviewed

[Halvard Johnson]

Shoot, anyone's work can be compared to Whitman's
(or anyone else's).

Hal

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.

Halvard Johnson
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On Aug 9, 2007, at 5:35 PM, jforjames at aol.com wrote:

> 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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