A memoir of one man's personal journey through Ignatian spiritual practice follows the author as he describes in his journal his search for and discovery of God's will in his life. 17,500 first printing.

Product Description: 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The award-winning author of Lost Puritan and A New World Naked presents a close-up look at the turbulent and tragically short life of American poet Hart Crane, from his youth, to his turbulent life amid the New York gay scene, to his suicide at the age of thirty-two. Reprint. (view table of contents)

The award-winning author of Lost Puritan and A New World Naked presents a close-up look at the turbulent and tragically short life of American poet Hart Crane, from his youth, to his turbulent life amid the New York gay scene, to his suicide at the age of thirty-two. (view table of contents)

In his fifth book, the poet uses the wheel as a metaphor for the losses of life, such as a ferris wheel ridden with a friend now dead, the wheel of the morning sun, and the paradisal wheel of Dante. Reprint. PW.

Traces the life and career of the Pulitizer Prize-winning poet, discusses his influence on modern poetry, and looks at the manic depression and alcoholism that marred his personal life

An anthology of thirty-five poems shares the trope of the great wheel, focusing on the wheel of fortune, a ferris wheel, Dante's paradisal wheel, and the wheel of the great tradition in relation to life experiences.

Product Description: This work provides a portrait of John Berryman, who, by the time of his suicide at the age of 58, had won a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award. It describes the poet's struggle with alcohol and drugs, his obsession with women and fame, and his friendships with other writers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Poems deal with love, family, immigrant America, nature, childhood, and death

Product Description: In addition to being a small-town doctor who delivered more than 3,000 babies, William Carlos Williams was a deeply serious thinker considered on of the foremost poets of the century. In this remarkable, rich blend of art and scholarship, Paul Mariani unfolds Williams' life and times while simultaneously letting the reader inside the poet's mind and language...read more

Poems consider death, bereavement, creative inspiration, the past, childhood, war, peace, the seasons, and religion

Product Description: Book by Mariani, Paul

The life story of William Carlos Williams, small town New Jersey doctor turned poet, tells of his Spanish-Jewish-English heritage, his boyhood, his fascination with women, and his friendships and skirmishes with other poets

Reviews the critical reception accorded Williams' work in America and England over the last sixty years, focusing on particularly influential and insightful reviews, commentaries, and studies