Marvin Hartley Bell was born in New York City, the son of Saul and Belle Spector Bell. He was educated at Alfred University in Alfred, New York, where he received a B.A. in 1958. He briefly attended Syracuse University in 1958 and did graduate work at...

Marvin Bell, Rampant, Copper Canyon In answering objections that the poems of Horace and Goethe seem to break off in many directions, Schopenhauer writes: "But here the logical sequence is intentionally neglected, in order that the unity of the fundamental sensation and...

Bell, Marvin Thursday, January 27, 2000 Bell, Marvin Passed Away Jan. 25, 2000 at the age of 86. Dear cousin of Audrienne Eder of Milwaukee, Danny (Mary Ellen) Hillman of Joliet, IL and Arthur (Minette) Hillman of Bethesda, MD. Also survived by...

[From A Probable Volume of Dreams through The Escape into You and Residue of Song]—the three most important books of Marvin Bell which have been published so far—we discover the poet crafting his poems in structures which keep reminding us just how much artifice is involved, and how much wit is needed to keep the poem afloat and the reader at once near and at bay. What proves telling is seeing which poems from Bell's limited edition of Things We Dreamt We Died For … get left out ...

Stars Which See, Stars Which Do Not See, Marvin Bell's fourth volume, is a disarming book, deceptive in its simplicity and altogether seductive in its beauty. If others have made much of the verbal intelligence and knotty wit in Bell's work, and rightly so, what has most often been ignored is the extreme delicacy of the voice in his most lyric poems. Though Bell's playful, metaphysical intelligence is always pleasing, it is when this intelligence grows most fluid and intimate that the p...

Marvin Bell does love poetry. He loves the very idea of it. And in Old Snow Just Melting, his new collection of essays and interviews, he loves writing and talking about poetry and does so with a joy and an obvious commitment that are contagious…. Old Snow Just Melting … brings together twenty-one essays with such titles as "I Was a Boston (Marathon) Bandit (On Assignment)" and "Learning from Translations" and four interviews including "The University Is Some...