The Mystery of It All: The Vocation of Poetry in the Twilight of Modernity

by Paul Mariani

Paul Mariani has spent fifty years writing poetry that celebrates the vibrant sacramentality of life in the twilight of Modernity, and writing the lives of some of our greatest modern poets. This is a life-spanning collection of his prose explorations of what it means to be a person of wonder and imagination.

Genres: Poetry

240 pages, Paperback

Published August 6, 2019

Reviews

[Josh Nisley · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fine collection of essays, many of which are in conversation with GM Hopkins, either directly or indirectly. The prose style is as allusive (and at times elusive) as one might expect from a poet.