| The Great Wheel: Poems Contributor(s): Mariani, Paul (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393317021 ISBN-13: 9780393317022 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $16.10 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 1997 Annotation: In his fifth book, Paul Mariani uses the image of the wheel to chart the kinds of losses we all face in living--deaths and separations, lost loves, lost friends, lost happiness. The wheel of fortune, a ferris wheel ridden with a friend now dead, Dante's paradisal wheel, the wheel of the morning sun, by turns call up the writings of Hart Crane, Whitman, and Hopkins. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 95037927 |
| Physical Information: 0.27" H x 5.51" W x 8.17" (0.24 lbs) 76 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Here, in his fifth book, Paul Mariani uses the trope of the wheel to chart the kinds of losses we all face in living: deaths and separations, lost loves, lost friends, lost happiness. The wheel of fortune, a ferris wheel ridden with a friend now dead, Dante's paradisal wheel, the wheel of the morning sun, by turns call up Hart Crane and Wilfrid Owen, Stevens and Williams, Whitman and Hopkins. |
Contributor Bio(s): Mariani, Paul: - Poet, scholar, essayist, critic, Paul Mariani is the author of many books, including William Carlos Williams and The Great Wheel. He teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. |