{"product_id":"mars-being-red-9781556592577","title":"Mars Being Red","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Marvin Bell has the largest heart since Walt Whitman.”\u003ci\u003e—Harvard Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eMars Being Red\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eWhat shall we do, we who are at war but are asked \/ to pretend we are not?\u003c\/i\u003e What Bell has done is craft a book of urgency and insight, anger and action:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003e. . . I am, like you, a witness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eto the coffins that were Viet Nam and Iraq,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eto a political machine that came up three lemons . . .\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eI am the big ears and the wide eyes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eto whom time happened. I lived in stormy weather\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ewriting songs of love because, tell me\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eif you know, who can help it?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eMarvin Bell\u003c\/b\u003e served on the faculty at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop for over thirty years. He is the first and current poet laureate of Iowa.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359610863959,"sku":"9781556592577","price":16.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781556592577.jpg?v=1754125172","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mars-being-red-9781556592577","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}