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Genre/Form: | American essays |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Christian Wiman |
ISBN: | 9780374216788 0374216789 9780374534370 0374534373 |
OCLC Number: | 795174378 |
Description: | viii, 182 pages ; 22 cm |
Contents: | My bright abyss -- Sorrow's flower -- Tender interior -- God's truth is life -- O thou mastering light -- Dear oblivion -- Hive of nerves -- God is not beyond -- Varieties of quiet -- Mortify our wolves -- Million little oblivions. |
Responsibility: | Christian Wiman. |
Abstract:
"Composed in the difficult years since [having written a now-famous essay about having faith in the face of death] and completed in the wake of a bone marrow transplant, [this book] is a ... meditation on what a viable contemporary faith--responsive not only to modern thought and science but also to religious tradition--might feel like"--Dust jacket flap.
Seven years ago, Wiman, a well-known poet and the editor of Poetry magazine, wrote a now-famous essay about having faith in the face of death. Now he presents 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. 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?
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