{"product_id":"god-and-the-imagination-paul-mariani-9780820324081","title":"God and the Imagination","description":"\u003cp\u003ePoet, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCharged with spiritual and intellectual awe, Mariani fully engages with his subjects, from their lives to their works to their grand impact on Mariani's own life as a poet. His prose flows easily from anecdote to analysis, from Paterson, the setting of Williams's great tribute poem, to Manhattan, where Mariani haunts old neighborhoods and the Brooklyn Bridge, searching for traces of Hart Crane. By infusing scholarly criticism with a personal voice, Mariani allows us to see the relationship between poetry and a sublime presence in the universe. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSerious reading for anyone interested in modern and contemporary poetry, God and the Imagination offers elegant and original insights into a wide variety of poetic concerns. But it is most extraordinary for its celebration of the lives of the poets, which allow us, in Mariani's words, \"to recover what would otherwise be lost to time and silence.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Mariani\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0820324086\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820324081\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.76lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.26h x 5.64w x 0.73d","brand":"Paul Mariani","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44120341250303,"sku":"9780820324081","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4c04bf3e-11cd-4fef-a4b8-9c038abb1a33.jpg?v=1687413799","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/god-and-the-imagination-paul-mariani-9780820324081","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}