Poetry. NIGHTWORKS is a refreshing retrospective on the distinguished poet's work. It provides a selection of poems from his previous books—along with two dozen new poems—and makes available poems from volumes long out of print. 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. "Marvin Bell's career has been substantial [and] NIGHTWORKS reminds us just how distinctive his voice has been all along—how prophetic, how candid, how rigorously philosophical. He enlarges our understanding of what poetry can do"—The Georgia Review.

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.