Paul L. Mariani, Author William Morrow & Company $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-05026-9
This is not a critical biography of Berryman, and readers not familiar with the pulsations and contortions of his poetry might wish that it were. Here, however, is the man, by turns kind, arrogant and belligerent; obsessed with poetry, women and his
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Paul L. Mariani, Author W. W. Norton & Company $35 (492p) ISBN 978-0-393-04726-4
The first account of Crane to embrace his homosexuality and to assess its place in his poetry, Mariani's biography illuminates previously shadowy corners of the writer's life. John Unterecker's Voyager appeared 30 years ago, only a few months before
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Paul L. Mariani, Author W. W. Norton & Company $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-393-03921-4
In Mariani's ""great wheel,"" everything that goes around comes around. The spirits of Socrates and Serpico consort in a bar and the sensibility of New York can tell of both ""Danny Rossi's family grocery store"" and attic cenotaphs, the dual legacy
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Paul L. Mariani, Author . Viking Compass $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-670-89455-0
In laying open his journal from a 30-day retreat based on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, Mariani, a writer and English professor at Boston College, allows the world to look in on a highly personal time in his life. His gracious and...
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