The Great Wheel
Poems
4 February 1998
Description
"The Great Wheel offers a pleasure rarely found: the chance to see a powerful intellect reflect on some of the most moving and universal human experiences". — Boston Book Review
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.
Also By: Paul Mariani 
Salvage Operations: New & Selected Poems
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The Broken Tower: The Life of Hart Crane
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Lost Puritan: A Life of Robert Lowell
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