Marvin Cohen

Poet, Fiction Writer

Author's Bio

Marvin Cohen is an essayist, novelist, playwright, poet, humorist, and surrealist. He is the author of the recently reissued, OTHERS, INCLUDING MORSTIVE STERNBUMP (40th anniversary edition), published by Tough Poets Press in November 2016 and HOW TO OUTTHINK A WALL: AN ANTHOLOGY, published by VerbiVoracious Press, Glasgow and Singapore, which includes a selection of new works and complete works: The Monday Rhetoric of the Love Club, The Inconvenience of Living, Fables at Life's Expense, and Aesthetics in Life and Art, and How the Snake Emerged From the Bamboo Pole But Man Emerged From Both.

Cohen died at the age of ninety-three on March 15, 2025.

(Photo credit: Tom Gervasi)

 

Publications & Prizes

Book:
The Self-Devoted Friend (New Directions, 1967)
Journals:
Ambit
,
Chelsea
,
Hudson Review
,
New Directions
,
The Nation
,
The New Yorker

More Information

Born in: 
Brooklyn, NY
New York
Raised in: 
Brooklyn, NY
New York
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Last update: Oct 16, 2025