The Great Wheel: Poems

by Paul L. Mariani

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393317021
• ISBN13: 9780393317022
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 76 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.2"