– Marvin Bell one of the leading poets in America – long-time teacher at Iowa Writer’s Workshop, one of the country’s foremost writing programs – first poet laureate of Iowa (2000-2004) – Bell’s last book, Rampant, was very well reviewed, including cover feature in American Poetry Review and review in New York Times – includes several new “Dead Man” poems, for which Bell is both famous and infamous – most political book of Bell’s career – Bell's sixth book with Copper Canyon Press