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

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

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The Mystery of It All
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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.

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Format: Paperback book
Product code: PP3332
Dimensions: 6" x 9"
Length: 240 pages
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Paraclete Press
ISBN: 9781640603332
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Written by Paul Mariani

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Mariani remains our finest reader of Gerard Manley Hopkins, and his appreciation for that British Jesuit’s genius is borne from the synthesis of skilled close-reading and consideration of a complex life. In this book, Mariani pivots from Hopkins to a bevy of modern Catholic poets, before concluding with an insightful look at the state of the Catholic intellectual tradition at American universities. An expansive book that offers both wisdom and hope.
Nick Ripatrazone, culture editor for Image Magazine, author of the novel, This Darksome Burn, and a collection of stories, Ember Days
To read the never prosaic, always poetic, prose of Paul Mariani's The Mystery of It All is to feel called to action and then guided by a voice at once both lovingly personal and yet passionately prophetic, the voice of not just an intellectual but also a spiritual father, calling writers, teachers, and editors to preserve the "incomprehensible certainty" of the Mystery and a sacramental understanding of our world.
Mary Ann B. Miller, professor of English, Caldwell University, and founding editor, Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry

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.