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| | Poetry Daily Feature: Marvin Bell - Rampant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | In Rampant, the ancient Greeks are at the horizon, the crab boats are tethered to the pier, Louis Braille is being re-entombed, Vaccination Day has arrived, and parasites discuss us in the future. |
 | | Bell has said he "likes ideas to have a little dirt on their shoes." By the conclusion of Rampant, his shoes are well-traveled through a ten-part suite, "Journal of the Posthumous Present," a natural extension of his celebrated "Dead Man" poems. |
 | | Remarkable for its formal approach and its sociophilosophical investigation of contemporary life, it is simultaneously groundbreaking and characteristic of this unique poet's long, distinguished career. |
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