Paul Mariani was born in New York City in 1940 and began his childhood in Long Island. He was the oldest of his seven brothers and sisters from a middle working-class background. Mariani had received his bachelor's degree from Manhattan College, New York and a Master's Degree from Colgate University. In addition to his collection, he earned a Ph.D. from NYC University. Mariani and his wife, Eileen, have three sons and live in western Massachusetts. …
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…Book Award, and was also named a New York Times Notable Book of the year. He is currently at work on a biography of Gerard Manley Hopkins. His honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He was a distinguished University Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he taught from 1968 until 2000, and currently holds a Chair in Poetry at Boston College.