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."
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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."
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New. Paul Mariani--biographer, poet and onetime postulant to the Marianist priesthood--deftly traces the leitmotifs of his intellectual and spiritual life in these two dozen essays. The first handful (and more personal) might be the strongest. Raised in Long Island, the son of a gas station owner and alcoholic, Mariani finds himself, like many baby boomers from working-class households, an awkward ambassador of his class within the halls of academia. Yet he remains a gifted guide of his experience, granting us glimpses into his own formation: his father gripping a hoodlum's face; himself inadvertently humiliating an illiterate cousin; his first poem, a Crucifixion narrative in iambic verse. So skilled is Mariani in weaving all these strands into something fast and whole that we sigh with him, fulfilled, when his son becomes a Jesuit, picking up his father's lost vocation. The two following sections lead through the writing lives of Galway Kinnell, Robert Lowell, John Berryman, Hart Crane, Thomas Hardy, Robert Frost and William Carlos Williams, subtly tracking the modern imagination's invisible movements both to and from an ineffable, incarnate God. Here Mariani leashes his prose a little, focusing intently on the imagination's movement toward ''a language that pays homage to the splendid grittiness of the physical as well as to the splendor and consolation of the spiritual. '' If, as he believes, the Word of God came among us, the poet must be concerned with ''raising the quotidian to the level of spirit, of correcting an imbalance by learning to see the Spirit as it lifts everything into the light of [the] graced imagination...''
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