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

by Paul Mariani (Author)

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 Biography

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.