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Availability:In StockContributor:Paul MarianiSeries:Life of Poetry: Poets on Their Art and CraftPublish date:2002-07-01Pages:304
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Georgia PressISBN-13:9780820324081ISBN-10:820324086UPC:9780820324081Book Category:PoetrySize:8.26 x 5.64 x 0.73 inchesWeight:0.7606Product ID:SCS3GBQY8F

Poet, critic, biographer, and Catholic intellectual Paul Mariani delivers huge armfuls of experience and knowledge in this wide-ranging collection of twenty-four essays. As a man of faith in a secular world, Mariani brings to light issues surrounding spirituality and poetry through discussions of the Gnostics, Roman history, the Bible, John of the Cross, Rilke, Robert Pack, Galway Kinnell, Philip Levine, and the poets he most admires--Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Carlos Williams, Hart Crane, John Berryman, and Robert Lowell.

Charged with spiritual and intellectual awe, Mariani fully engages with his subjects, from their lives to their works to their grand impact on Mariani's own life as a poet. His prose flows easily from anecdote to analysis, from Paterson, the setting of Williams's great tribute poem, to Manhattan, where Mariani haunts old neighborhoods and the Brooklyn Bridge, searching for traces of Hart Crane. By infusing scholarly criticism with a personal voice, Mariani allows us to see the relationship between poetry and a sublime presence in the universe.

Serious reading for anyone interested in modern and contemporary poetry, God and the Imagination offers elegant and original insights into a wide variety of poetic concerns. But it is most extraordinary for its celebration of the lives of the poets, which allow us, in Mariani's words, "to recover what would otherwise be lost to time and silence."
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Georgia PressISBN-13:9780820324081ISBN-10:820324086UPC:9780820324081Book Category:PoetrySize:8.26 x 5.64 x 0.73 inchesWeight:0.7606Product ID:SCS3GBQY8F
Paul Mariani is the author of "Thirty Days: On Retreat with the Exercises of St. Ignatius" and five volumes of poetry, including, most recently, "The Great Wheel." Besides several critical studies, he has also published biographies of Robert Lowell, William Carlos Williams, Hart Crane, and John Berryman. Mariani currently holds a Chair in English at Boston College.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press

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