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

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.

About the author

Paul Mariani is the author of seven collections of poetry as well as several biographies and works of prose, including Deaths and Transfigurations: Poems, Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Life, and God and the Imagination: On Poets, Poetry, and the Ineffable. Of his many honors, Mariani has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Mariani
• Publisher: Paraclete Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9781640603332
• ISBN: 978-1-64060-333-2
• No. of pages: 242
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 399 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Lyrik, Poesie, Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Inspirational & Religious, RELIGION / Christianity / Literature & the Arts, Religion - Classic Works