Poet, critic, biographer, and Catholic intellectual Paul Mariani
delivers huge armfuls of experience and knowledge in this
wide-ranging collection of twenty-four essays. As a man of faith in
a secular world, 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.
Charged with spiritual and intellectual awe, Mariani fully
engages with his subjects, from their lives to their works to their
grand impact on Mariani's own life as a poet. His prose flows
easily from anecdote to analysis, from Paterson, the setting of
Williams's great tribute poem, to Manhattan, where Mariani haunts
old neighborhoods and the Brooklyn Bridge, searching for traces of
Hart Crane. By infusing scholarly criticism with a personal voice,
Mariani allows us to see the relationship between poetry and a
sublime presence in the universe.
Serious reading for anyone interested in modern and contemporary
poetry, God and the Imagination offers elegant and original
insights into a wide variety of poetic concerns. But it is most
extraordinary for its celebration of the lives of the poets, which
allow us, in Mariani's words, "to recover what would otherwise be
lost to time and silence."
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