Research Catalog

Title

Mars being red / Marvin Bell.

Author

Bell, Marvin, 1937-

Publication

Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press, [2007], ©2007.

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Details

Description

83 pages; 23 cm

Contents

Prodigal? -- I didn't sleep -- The method -- The poems I want to hear -- The book of the dead man (writing the dead man poem) -- Poseur -- Coffee -- Bagram, Afghanistan, 2002 -- Archaic Apollo -- Theory of relativity (political) -- Stupid time -- American Winter 2006 -- Cable news night -- Messy -- What things are -- Hard times for army recruiters -- The campus in wartime -- Assisted living quarters -- The book of the dead man (memory) -- Mirror image -- Elegy for Jim Simmerman, with a call to Michael Burkard -- Slice of life -- People walking in fog -- Mars being red -- CQ -- Homeland security -- Art in wartime -- Deadline -- Fifteen minutes -- Unable to sleep in frosts bed in Franconia -- Dream of a dream -- Her shyness -- Doo-wop -- Poem post-9/11/01 -- "Why do you stay up so late?" -- The broken rose -- Ode to night -- Days of Superman -- Five to seven -- Art shoes -- An apology to the Vietnamese and Iraqis -- Bus stop essay on rampant capitalism -- Ordinary -- It -- About his eyes -- The book of the dead man (Ghosts) -- Geezers -- Stubby Sag Harbor sonnet -- The book of the dead man (Recent Dreams) -- First-generation American, now the news -- Yes -- "Astronomers may have reason for Milky Way's 'lumpiness'" -- Regardless -- West coast oceanic -- Veterans of the seventies -- Oppression -- The time I tore my kneecaps off (La La) -- Weapons of mass destruction -- Why -- The book of the dead man (Time) -- Bent.

ISBN

• 9781556592577 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1556592574 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2006101743

OCLC

• OCM77520560
• 77520560
• SCSB-5345394

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries