{"product_id":"mars-being-red-paperback","title":"Mars Being Red - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMarvin Bell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Marvin Bell has the largest heart since Walt Whitman.\"\u003ci\u003e--Harvard Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\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\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\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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarvin Bell, author of fifteen volumes of poetry and prose, is a distinguished poet and influential teacher who for the past 35 years has served as a faculty member at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. In 2000, the State of Iowa named him its first Poet Laureate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.29 x 8.97 x 6.29 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 01, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e L.A. Times Book Prize (2007)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50375760642285,"sku":"9781556592577","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/8918\/9441\/files\/D0vBFQaA5e9781556592577.webp?v=1785570071","url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/en-ca\/products\/mars-being-red-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}