Book Description
A passionate meditation on the consolations and disappointments of religion and poetry
Author : Christian Wiman
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 13,85 MB
Release : 2013-04-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0374216789
A passionate meditation on the consolations and disappointments of religion and poetry
Author : Christian Wiman
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 37,26 MB
Release : 2013-04-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1466836741
Seven years ago, Christian Wiman, a well-known poet and the editor of Poetry magazine, wrote a now-famous essay about having faith in the face of death. My Bright Abyss, composed in the difficult years since and completed in the wake of a bone marrow transplant, is a moving meditation on what a viable contemporary faith—responsive not only to modern thought and science but also to religious tradition—might look like. Joyful, sorrowful, and beautifully written, My Bright Abyss is destined to become a spiritual classic, useful not only to believers but to anyone whose experience of life and art seems at times to overbrim its boundaries. How do we answer this "burn of being"? Wiman asks. What might it mean for our lives—and for our deaths—if we acknowledge the "insistent, persistent ghost" that some of us call God? One of Publishers Weekly's Best Religion Books of 2013
Author : Christian Wiman
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 36,1 MB
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0374717818
A moving meditation on memory, oblivion, and eternity by one of our most celebrated poets What is it we want when we can’t stop wanting? And how do we make that hunger productive and vital rather than corrosive and destructive? These are the questions that animate Christian Wiman as he explores the relationships between art and faith, death and fame, heaven and oblivion. Above all, He Held Radical Light is a love letter to poetry, filled with moving, surprising, and sometimes funny encounters with the poets Wiman has known. Seamus Heaney opens a suddenly intimate conversation about faith; Mary Oliver puts half of a dead pigeon in her pocket; A. R. Ammons stands up in front of an audience and refuses to read. He Held Radical Light is as urgent and intense as it is lively and entertaining—a sharp sequel to Wiman’s earlier memoir, My Bright Abyss.
Author : Christian Wiman
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 46,82 MB
Release : 2014-08-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1466878223
A vibrant new collection from one of America's most talented young poets Every Riven Thing is Christian Wiman's first collection in seven years, and rarely has a book of poetry so borne the stamp of necessity. Whether in stark, haiku-like descriptions of a cancer ward, surrealistic depictions of a social order coming apart, or fluent, defiant outpourings of praise, Wiman pushes his language and forms until they break open, revealing startling new truths within. The poems are joyful and sorrowful at the same time, abrasive and beautiful, densely physical and credibly mystical. They attest to the human hunger to feel existence, even at its most harrowing, and the power of art to make our most intense experiences not only apprehensible but transfiguring.
Author : Christian Wiman
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 43,32 MB
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0374721416
Named as a 2020 Book of the Year by The Times Literary Supplement Survival Is a Style, Christian Wiman’s first collection of new poems in six years, may be his best book yet. His many readers will recognize the musical and formal variety, the voice that can be tender and funny, credibly mystical and savagely skeptical. But there are many new notes in this collection as well, including a moving elegy to the poet’s father, sharp observations and distillations of modern American life, and rangy poems that merge and juxtapose different modes of speech and thought. The cumulative effect is extraordinary. Reading Survival Is a Style, one has the sense one is encountering work that will become a permanent part of American literature.
Author : Christian Wiman
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 26,54 MB
Release : 2013-06-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1619320932
An intimate first book of personal essays and incisive commentary from the editor of Poetry.
Author : Christian Wiman
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 35,79 MB
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0374713545
One of The New York Times' 10 Favorite Poetry Books of 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist A searing new collection from one of our country's most important poets Memories mercies mostly aren't but there were I swear days veined with grace —from "Memory's Mercies" Once in the West, Christian Wiman's fourth collection, is as intense and intimate as poetry gets—from the "suffering of primal silence" that it plumbs to the "rockshriek of joy" that it achieves and enables. Readers of Wiman's earlier books will recognize the sharp characterizations and humor—"From her I learned the earthworm's exemplary open-mindedness, / its engine of discriminate shit"—as well as his particular brand of reverent rage: "Lord if I implore you please just please leave me alone / is that a prayer that's every instant answered?" But there is something new here, too: moving love poems to his wife, tender glimpses of his children, and, amid the onslaughts of illness and fear and failures, "a trace / of peace."
Author : Nina Riggs
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 21,67 MB
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1501169351
"Built on her ... Modern Love column, 'When a Couch is More Than a Couch' (9/23/2016), a ... memoir of living meaningfully with 'death in the room' by the 38-year-old great-great-great granddaughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson--mother to two young boys, wife of 16 years--after her terminal cancer diagnosis"--
Author : Christian Wiman
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 40,97 MB
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0374167745
"The selected poems of American poet Christian Wiman"--
Author : Makiia Lucier
Publisher : Clarion Books
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 23,45 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0544968581
When men start vanishing at sea without a trace, seventeen-year-old Reyna, a Master Explorer, must travel to a country shrouded in secrets to solve the mystery before it is too late.