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Christian Wiman braids poetry, memoir, and criticism to create an inspired, career-defining work. Few contemporary writers ask the questions about faith, morality, and God that Christian Wiman does, and even fewer—perhaps none—do so with his urgency and eloquence. Wiman, an award-winning poet and t... Read More about Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair

Eight 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 viab... Read More about My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer

One hundred of the most evocative modern poems on joy, selected by an award-winning contemporary poet“Bursting with energy and surprising locutions. . . . Even the most familiar poets seem somehow new within the context of Joy.”—David Skeel, Wall Street Journal   “Wiman takes readers throu... Read More about Joy: 100 Poems

Christian Wiman braids poetry, memoir, and criticism to create an inspired, career-defining work. Few contemporary writers ask the questions about faith, morality, and God that Christian Wiman does, and even fewer—perhaps none—do so with his urgency and eloquence. Wiman, an award-winning poet and t... Read More about Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair

Evocative poems and prose fragments about home, selected by one of the most celebrated poets of our time  “This is a book of longing, yes, and also spiritual discernment, political awareness, historical memory, and deep intimacy.”—Carolyn Forché   In this poignant collection, Christian Wim... Read More about Home: 100 Poems

A visionary selection from one of America’s foremost poets One of the most distinctive voices in contemporary American poetry, Christian Wiman has forged a singular style that fuses a vivid and propulsive music with clear-eyed realism, wry humor, and visionary lament. In his “daring and urgent” (The... Read More about Hammer Is the Prayer: Selected Poems