Deaths And Transfigurations: Poems

by Mariani, Paul

• ISBN13: 9781557254528
• ISBN10: 1557254524
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-08-15
• Publisher: Paraclete Pr

Summary

Click here to listen to an audio interview with Paul MarianiThis provocative collection of new poems is the latest in a series of Paul Mariani's rich contributions to American literature. These spiritually searching poems develop themes of personal loss - the deaths we experience - as well as the quest for new life often known as tranfigurations. Barry Moser, one of the world's foremost book designers and illustrators, has created a series of original engravings within the text that correspond to the major themes in Mariani's verse. Listen to Paul Mariani Read from Deaths and Transfigurations: Solar Ice The Sweater Casualty Report Silt Death and Transfiguration 911 High Tea with Miss Juliana Hopkins in Ireland When We Walked Together

Author Biography

Paul Mariani is formerly Distinguished University Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he taught from 1968 until 2000. Mariani currently holds a Chair in Poetry at Boston College.

Table of Contents

ONE
Wasn't It Us You Were Seeking?	15	(2)
Solar Ice	17	(2)
New York, Christmas Eve 1947	19	(1)
Study in Black & White	20	(2)
East of the Whitestone	22	(2)
The Sweater	24	(3)
Work	27	(2)
The Place across the River	29	(3)
The Things They Taught Me	32	(5)
Failed Ghazal against the Siren Call of Morpheus & In Niggling Praise of Old Bitch Fame, Rejected (Gently) by the Late Agha Shahid Ali	37	(1)
Unsolicited	38	(1)
Absence of Crocus	39	(2)
Light	41	(4)
TWO
Casualty Report	45	(2)
Fear	47	(2)
Silt	49	(2)
Pieta	51	(2)
Passage	53	(1)
Exile	54	(1)
Mother of Consolation	55	(2)
Wolf Moon	57	(1)
Ferry Crossing	58	(2)
Fathers & Sons	60	(2)
Death of the Father	62	(2)
How It All Worked Out	64	(2)
Shadow of the Father	66	(5)
THREE
P.S.	71	(1)
Making Capital	72	(2)
Death & Transfiguration	74	(2)
Nine One One	76	(2)
I Did Say Yes	78	(1)
Wedding Song	79	(1)
Birdsong	80	(1)
Epithalamion for an Old Friend & a New	81	(2)
High Tea with Miss Julianna	83	(2)
There Was a Boy Once	85	(4)
The Cup	89	(2)
Hopkins in Ireland	91	(1)
When We Walked Together	92