Mars Being Red - by Marvin Bell (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A moving, intensely political book from a poet whose interrogations run deep. (Poetry)<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>"Marvin Bell has the largest heart since Walt Whitman."<i>--Harvard Review</i></p><p>In a recent interview Marvin Bell said, "I've been trying for thirty years to figure out how best to put the news into poems--what other people would call politics. But there are some hairy aesthetic questions connected to overtly political poems."</p><p> <i>Mars Being Red</i> is the most political book of Bell's storied career--and one of his most beautiful. Infuriated by our country's military aggression and destructive politics, Bell asks, <i>What shall we do, we who are at war but are asked / to pretend we are not?</i> What Bell has done is craft a book of urgency and insight, anger and action: </p><p> <i>. . . I am, like you, a witness</i><br> <i>to the coffins that were Viet Nam and Iraq, </i><br> <i>to a political machine that came up three lemons . . .</i><br> <i>I am the big ears and the wide eyes</i><br> <i>to whom time happened. I lived in stormy weather</i><br> <i>writing songs of love because, tell me</i><br> <i>if you know, who can help it?</i></p><p> <b>Marvin Bell</b> served on the faculty at the Iowa Writers' Workshop for over thirty years. He is the first and current poet laureate of Iowa.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Marvin Bell, author of fifteen volumes of poetry and prose, is a distinguished poet and influential teacher who for the past 35 years has served as a faculty member at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. In 2000, the State of Iowa named him its first Poet Laureate.
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