Paul Mariani
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Paul Mariani, born in New York City in 1940, is an American poet and a professor at Boston College. He grew up on Long Island and is the eldest of seven children. Mariani has written a series of well-respected biographies: Robert Lowell (Lost Puritan), John Berryman (Dream Song), William Carlos Williams (A New World Naked, which was nominated for the American Book Award), and, most recently, Hart Crane (The Broken Tower). He has also published six books of poetry: Timing Devices, Crossing Cocytus, Prime Mover, Salvage Operations: New and Selected Poems, The Great Wheel, and Deaths & Transfigurations. His latest book is a biography of Gerard Manley Hopkins, to be published on October 30, 2008.
He has been honored with fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Foundation for the Humanities.
[edit] Books
- Mariani, Paul L. (1990). William Carlos Williams: A New World Naked. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-30672-0.
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