Paul Mariani

"In January and early February of 2000 I made the Long Retreat (34 days total) at Eastern Point and am writing a book called The Eastern Point Meditations: Reflections on the Ignatian Long Retreat, under contract with Viking/Penguin. It's a day-by-day journal of an intense spiritual journey. The book should be out in the fall of 2001."

"Also, just out, is the book Signatures of Grace: Catholic Writers on the Sacraments (Dutton), with essays by Fr. Murray Bodo, Andre Dubus, Mary Gordon, Patricia Hampl, Ron Hansen, Katherine Vaz, and myself."

"Also forthcoming in Preservation Magazine is 'Eight of Nine Ways of Looking at a River,' a piece in Boston College Magazine, and another in American Heritage. I seem to be writing essays mostly these days, and dream poems. I'll be teaching at Boston College come fall, after 32 years at the University of Massachusetts."

Biography

Paul Mariani is Distinguished University Professor, Department of English, University of Massachusetts. His fifth book of poems, The Great Wheel, was published by W.W. Norton in 1996. He has written authoritative biographies of poets William Carlos Williams (which was nominated for the National Book Award), John Berryman, and Robert Lowell (a New York Times notable book for 1994). The Broken Tower, his biography of poet Hart Crane, was published by W.W. Norton in 1998.