{"product_id":"nightworks-poems-1962-2000","title":"Nightworks: Poems, 1962-2000","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eNightworks: Poems, 1962-2000\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eMarvin Bell\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e1556591470\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eCopper Canyon Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2000\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e360\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring the past forty years Marvin Bell has been one of poetry's true innovators. With each book his writing seems in constant motion, always developing ideas and exploring new literary territory. His voice changes not to fit current literary fashion, but to serve his art, to serve the wide--and often entertaining--range of subjects and ideas at the heart of his poems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Nightworks\" is a refreshing retrospective on the distinguished poet and educator's work. It collects poems from a dozen previous books--together with forty-two new poems--and makes available poems from volumes long out of print, including groundbreaking books such as \"The Escape Into You\" and National Book Award finalist \"Stars Which See, Stars Which Do Not See.\" It amply demonstrates why Bell's poetic voice has been continually praised for its lucidity and eloquence, and has been rightly characterized as ambitious without pretension.\u003cbr\u003e\"To Dorothy\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"You are not beautiful, exactly.\u003cbr\u003eYou are beautiful, inexactly.\u003cbr\u003eYou let a weed grow by the mulberry\u003cbr\u003eand a mulberry grow by the house.\u003cbr\u003eSo close, in the personal quiet\u003cbr\u003eof a windy night, it brushes the wall\u003cbr\u003eand sweeps away the day till we sleep.\u003cbr\u003eA child said it, and it seemed true: \u003cbr\u003e\"Things that are lost are all equal.\"\u003cbr\u003eBut it isn't true. If I lost you, \u003cbr\u003ethe air wouldn't move, nor the tree grow.\u003cbr\u003eSomeone would pull the weed, my flower.\u003cbr\u003eThe quiet wouldn't be yours. If I lost you, \u003cbr\u003eI'd have to ask the grass to let me sleep.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"One of our finest and most acclaimed poets.\"--\"Booklist\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMarvin Bell's poetry has appeared in scores of anthologies and in magazines such as \"The New Yorker\" and \"Atlantic Monthly.\" He has lectured and read at universities in 45 states and territories, is the recipient of the Lamont Award and teaches in the Iowa Writer's Workshop.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available by Marvin Bell\u003cbr\u003e\"The Book of the Dead Man\"\u003cbr\u003ePB $12.00, 1-55659-063-6 - CUSA\u003cbr\u003eHC y $22.00, 1-55659-062-8 - CUSA\u003cbr\u003e\"Ardor: The Book of the Dead Man, Volume 2\"\u003cbr\u003ePB $14.00, 1-55659-081-4 - CUSA\u003cbr\u003e\"Iris of Creation\"\u003cbr\u003ePB $10.00, 1-55659-032-6 - CUSA\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLess Self\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrowing your voice is one of t\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Nightworks: Poems, 1962-2000 | Marvin Bell | Hardcover | 1556591470 | Used: Very Good | Back Stacks G 1746729","offer_id":48842585178264,"sku":"1746729","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/51X-YbKXW9L.jpg?v=1775235897","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/nightworks-poems-1962-2000","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}