All that will be new / Paul Mariani.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mariani, Paul L., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (68 pages)

Place of Publication:

Seattle, Washington : Slant Books, [2022]

Summary:

In the poem that opens this, his ninth collection, one of our most celebrated men of letters contemplates the "primordial tensions" felt in the crashing waves of a Northeaster, the glory and terror of the storm as "the real comes crashing finally down on you." Contemplating as we all must the unrelenting passing of time and the harsh realities of history, Paul Mariani embodies the filmmaker Akira Kurosawa's dictum that "the artist is the one who does not look away." In the face of pandemics, wars, and the open wound of racism, the poet continues his search for those artists, activists, writers, and saints who can guide us through the wilderness and help us preserve the hope that all things can be made new. Whether he is contemplating painters from Caravaggio to Van Gogh in deft ekphrastic poems, evoking the courageous witness of Harriet Tubman and Malcolm X, or visiting with the poets, living and dead, who have been his masters, Paul Mariani's lyrical voice rings true. In the end, after the arduous journey that has taken him so far, the poet joins a simple supper, where the real shines forth in the breaking of bread

Contents:

Intro

Tile Page

I

De Profundis

Silver Moon

O

What's in a Name?

The Open Window

High Tea with Miss Julianna

Miss Julianna Revisited Twelve Years On

Sophia

The Stone My Grandson Gave Me

Gavin at Fourteen

Sixth-Grade Hockey on the Greenfield Rink

Little Anthony Leads His Massive Hound About

II

Mexico

Unconch

Pantoum for East Fifty-First

Johnnie Walker Black

In the Realm of Kings and Queens

Mrs. G's Lesson Plan

When My Father Found Out I Wrote Poetry

Mothers' Day, 2019

III

Those Shifting Sands

The Great Mississippi

Vieux Carré

Mardi Gras Seen from the Outside

The Sick Man

Coming Back from the Dead

Psalm for the Lost

Hornets' Nest

On Luca Signorelli's Self-Anointed Ones

Jeff Explains the Poetry of Money (With Some Added Wisdom from Walter)

IV

Mitzvah

The Silence of those Shadows

What the Waves Kept Telling Me

A Distant Purple

On the Way Home

They Too Go Round

Holy Saturday

What Happened Then

Acknowledgments.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781639821136

1639821139

9781639820320

1639820329

OCLC:

1195709155