Description: In Epitaphs for the Journey: New, Selected and Revised
Poems, Paul Mariani revisits forty years of writing poems,
including revising many of his earlier lyrics, to shape his latest
volume into a life lived and lived again over the past seven
decades. The eight sections--or cantos--each composed of twelve
poems, cover roughly a decade apiece and contour Mariani's search
for answers to the constant interplay of the felt presence of the
Mystery we call God as it plays with the modern imagination.
Mariani's background is Catholic and broadly classic, and warmly
embraces all aspects of Christianity and Judaism and the world even
beyond those. The Poiema Poetry Series Poems are windows into
worlds; windows into beauty, goodness, and truth; windows into
understandings that won't twist themselves into tidy dogmatic
statements; windows into experiences. We can do more than merely
peer into such windows; with a little effort we can fling open the
casements, and leap over the sills into the heart of these worlds.
We are also led into familiar places of hurt, confusion, and
disappointment, but we arrive in the poet's company. Poetry is a
partnership between poet and reader, seeking together to gain
something of value--to get at something important. Ephesians 2:10
says, ""We are God's workmanship . . ."" poiema in Greek--the thing
that has been made, the masterpiece, the poem. The Poiema Poetry
Series presents the work of gifted poets who take Christian faith
seriously, and demonstrate in whose image we have been made through
their creativity and craftsmanship. These poets are recent
participants in the ancient tradition of David, Asaph, Isaiah, and
John the Revelator. The thread can be followed through the
centuries--through the diverse poetic visions of Dante, Bernard of
Clairvaux, Donne, Herbert, Milton, Hopkins, Eliot, R.S. Thomas, and
Denise Levertov--down to the poet whose work is in your hand. With
the selection of this volume you are entering this enduring
tradition, and as a reader contributing to it. --D.S. Martin,
Series Editor About the Contributor(s): 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.
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