Background
Mariani, Paul was born on February 29, 1940 in New York City. Son of Paul Patrick and Harriet (Green) Mariani.
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Dream Song is the story of John Berryman, one of the most gifted poets of a generation that included Elizabeth Bishop, Randall Jarrell, Robert Lowell, and Dylan Thomas. Using Berryman's unpublished letters and poetry, as well as interviews with those who knew him intimately, Paul Mariani captures Berryman's genius and the tragedy that dogged him, while at the same time illuminating one of the most provocative periods in American letters. Here we witness Berryman's struggles with alcohol and drugs, his obsession with women and fame, and his friendships with luminary writers of the century. Mariani creates an unforgettable portrait of a poet who, by the time of his suicide at age fifty-seven, had won a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award.
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(This work provides a portrait of John Berryman, who, by t...)
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.
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( William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) emerged alongside P...)
William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) emerged alongside Pound, Eliot, Stevens, Frost, and Yeats as one of the foremost poets of the 20th century. Paterson, Williams's epic masterpiece, raised everyday American speech to the highest levels of poetic imagination. A finalist for the national Book Award and a New York Times Notable Book, William Carlos Williams: A New World Naked is a remarkable, rich blend of art and scholarship. From a small-town doctor who delivered more than 3,000 babies to an extraordinary revolutionary, Paul Mariani unfolds Williams' life and times while simultaneously letting the reader inside the poet's mind and language in this definitive masterwork.
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"Thorough and just. . . . Quietly, surely in touch with its distinguished subject."—Richard Wilbur Robert Lowell's poetry radically altered the American literary landscape, combining as it did family drama and an apocalyptic view of the history of our times. He won three Pulitzer Prizes and two National Book Awards for poetry. Married three times, always to writers, he had his dark side, suffering from crippling bouts of manic depression and alcoholism. Using hundreds of Lowell's unpublished manuscripts and letters, and dozens of interviews, Paul Mariani has given us a balanced, passionate, and readable life, capturing the man, his age, and his place in literary history.
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(An anthology of thirty-five poems shares the trope of the...)
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.
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Mariani, Paul was born on February 29, 1940 in New York City. Son of Paul Patrick and Harriet (Green) Mariani.
He earned his bachelor's degree from Manhattan College in 1962, a master's from Colgate University, and a Ph.D. from the City University of New York.
He taught at Colgate University (1963), Hunter College (1964–1967), Lehman College (1965-1966) and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice (1966–1968). From 1968 until 2000, he taught at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he became a Distinguished Professor of English. He taught at the Bread Loaf School of English in the 1980s and at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference from 1982 until 1996.
In 2000, he began teaching at Boston College, where he is the University Professor of English. His published work includes five biographies and seven volumes of poetry, as well as several critical studies of modern poetry and a spiritual memoir, Thirty Days. He has been honored with fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
James Franco's film biopic of Hart Crane, The Broken Tower, released in 2012, is based on Mariani's biography of the same title.
(An anthology of thirty-five poems shares the trope of the...)
( Dream Song is the story of John Berryman, one of the mo...)
( "The Great Wheel offers a pleasure rarely found: the ch...)
(This work provides a portrait of John Berryman, who, by t...)
( William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) emerged alongside P...)
( William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) emerged alongside P...)
(Poems deal with love, family, immigrant America, nature, ...)
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( "Thorough and just. . . . Quietly, surely in touch with...)
Member Modern Language Association, Poetry Society of America.
Married Eileen Mary Spinosa, August 24, 1963. Children: Paul, Mark, John.