Vertigo

"Marvin Bell has the largest heart since Walt Whitman."—Harvard Review

"One of our finest and most acclaimed poets."—Booklist

"Charged with making the darkness visible, Bell''s ''Dead Man'' sometimes glows with an eerily illuminating light."—Publishers Weekly

Marvin Bell is one of America''s great poets, and his legacy includes the invention of a startling poetic form called the "Dead Man" poems. The...