Mystery of It All: The Vocation of Poetry in the Twilight of Modernity


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Paul Mariani has spent fifty years writing poetry that celebrates the vibrant sacramentality of life in the twilight of Modernity, and writing the lives of some of our greatest modern poets. This is a life-spanning collection of his prose explorations of what it means to be a person of wonder and imagination.

Author: Paul Mariani
Publisher: Paraclete Press (MA)
Published: 08/01/2019
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781640603332
ISBN10: 1640603336
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Christianity | Literature & the Arts
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Inspirational & Religious
- Literary Criticism | Poetry

About the Author
Paul Mariani is the University Professor of English at Boston College. He is the author of twenty books, including eight volumes of poetry and biographies of Robert Lowell, John Berryman, Hart Crane, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and William Carlos Williams, which was a National Book Award finalist. His life of Hart Crane, The Broken Tower, was made into a feature film directed by and starring James Franco. He lives in western Massachusetts.