Ardor The Book of the Dead Man, Vol. 2

Defiantly nontraditional poems by poet who has been called “an insider who thinks like an outsider,” Ardor continues the work Marvin Bell began with his groundbreaking The Book of the Dead Man. An acknowledged master of poetic forms and ideas, Bell is a metamorphic poet who writes with authority, wit and intelligence. In Ardor he reinvigorates the everyday in poems which are by turns surreal, deadpan, outrageous, incisive, and perceptive.