at the Catholic Imagination Conference held at Loyola University Chicago. James Franco's film biopic of Hart Crane, The Broken Tower, released in 2012, is based on Mariani's biography of the same title. Bibliography Poetry Timing Devices: Poems (Pennyroyal Press 1977) Crossing Cocytus: Poems (Grove Press 1982) Prime Mover: Poems 1981-1985 (Grove Press 1985) Salvage Operations: New and Selected Poems (W. W. Norton & Company 1990) The Great Wheel: Poems (W. W. Norton & Company 1996) Deaths & Transfigurations: Poems (Paraclete Press 2005) Epitaphs for the Journey: New, Selected and Revised Poems (Cascade Books 2012) Ordinary Time: Poems (Slant 2020) All That Will Be New: Poems (Slant 2022) Prose A Commentary on the Complete Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Cornell University Press 1970) William Carlos Williams: The Poet and His Critics (American Library Association 1975) William Carlos Williams: A New World Naked (McGraw Hill 1981, W.W. Norton 1990 revised) A Usable Past: Essays on Modern & Contemporary Poetry (University of Massachusetts Press 1984) Dream Song: The Life of John Berryman (William Morrow 1990,Paragon Books 1992,University of Massachusetts Press,1996) Lost Puritan: A Life of Robert Lowell (W.W. Norton 1994) The Broken Tower: A Life of Hart Crane (W.W. Norton 1999) Thirty Days: On Retreat with the Exercises of St.Ignatius (Penguin Books 2002) God and the Imagination: Poetry, Poets, and the Ineffable (University of Georgia Press 2002) Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Life (Viking/Penguin 2008) The Whole Harmonium: The Life of Wallace Stevens (Simon & Schuster 2016) The Mystery of It All: The Vocation of Poetry in the Twilight of Modernism'' (Paraclete Press 2019) References External links A biography of Paul Mariani provided by Poets.org The Gods Who Come Among Us In the Guise of Strangers—poem by Mariani American male poets American biographers Colgate University alumni Graduate Center, CUNY alumni National Endowment for the Arts Fellows Boston College faculty 1940 births Living people Manhattan College alumni Historians from New York (state) American male biographers