Poetry. Emotional and intellectual rigor are everywhere abundant in the poems of IRIS OF CREATION. Marvin Bell's poems often begin where personal, philosophical, and political experiences intersect, or as Henry Carlile wrote in The Ohio Review, "One often senses that a Bell poem begins where other poets quit." Bell's quirky, lively imagination and idiomatic language admit a plethora of influences and experiences, articulating the need for personal transformation from within. This collection displays the poet at the height of his powers.
Author City: Iowa City, IA USA
Marvin Bell has published seventeen books of poetry and has received numerous honors, including the Lamont Award and Senior Fulbright appointments to Yugoslavia and Australia. He taught for forty years at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and was the first State Poet of Iowa. He lives in Iowa and Washington.