Paul Mariani
Author of Thirty Days: On Retreat with the Exercises of St. Ignatius
About the Author
Paul Mariani is the University Professor of English at Boston College and the author of eighteen books, including seven volumes of poetry, as well as biographies of Robert Lowell, John Berryman, Hart Crane, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and William Carlos Williams, the last a National Book Award finalist.
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Works by Paul Mariani
Associated Works
Leading From Within: Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Lead (2007) — Contributor — 102 copies, 3 reviews
Read the Beatles: Classic and New Writings on the Beatles, Their Legacy, and Why They Still Matter (2006) — Contributor — 72 copies
Introspections: American Poets on One of Their Own Poems (Bread Loaf Anthology) (1997) — Contributor — 35 copies, 1 review
Touchstones: American Poets on a Favorite Poem (Bread Loaf Anthology) (1996) — Contributor — 33 copies
In the Face of Presumptions: Essays, Speeches & Incidental Writings (2000) — Introduction, some editions — 31 copies
St. Peter's B-list: Contemporary Poems Inspired by the Saints (2014) — Contributor — 28 copies, 1 review
Not Less Than Everything: Catholic Writers on Heroes of Conscience, from Joan of Arc to Oscar Romero (2013) — Contributor — 19 copies, 2 reviews
View From This Wilderness: American Literature as History (1977) — Foreword, some editions — 18 copies
Biography As High Adventure: Life-Writers Speak on Their Art (1986) — Contributor, some editions — 15 copies
Gerard Manley Hopkins (Bloom's Modern Critical Views) (1986) — Contributor, some editions — 8 copies
Readings of The Wreck: essays in commemoration of the centenary of G.M. Hopkins' The Wreck of the Deutschland (1976) — Contributor — 8 copies
William Carlos Williams, John Sanford : A Correspondence (1984) — Foreword, some editions — 6 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Mariani, Paul Louis
- Birthdate
- 1940-02-09
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- New York, New York, USA
- Education
- Manhattan College (BA|1962)
Colgate University (MA|1964)
City University of New York (PhD|1968) - Occupations
- poet
biographer
literary critic
professor
essayist
editor - Relationships
- Mariani, Paul P. (son)
- Awards and honors
- John Ciardi Award for Lifetime Achievement in Poetry (2009)
Robert Frost fellow in poetry, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference (1980)
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowship
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Reviews
All That Will Be New: Poems by Paul Mariani
A fine collection of powerful yet accessible poetry.
½
From the day Paul Mariani arrives at Eastern Point Retreat House to take part in the five-hundred-year-old Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, he realizes that his expectations and assumptions about who he is, what he knows, and what he believes are about to change radically. In this profound memoir Mariani blends a brief life of St. Ignatius and meditations on the life of Jesus with the day-to-day unfolding of thirty days of silence at the retreat house. His journey of introspection, self-revelation, and spiritual renewal leads him to a new understanding of his relationship with God and of what it truly means to put others before oneself.… (more)
Excellent biography. The author clearly loves and understands Williams' poetry and the book is a good guide to his works, especially Paterson.
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- Rating
- 3.8
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