Christian Wiman
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"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.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
English
Description
Poetry's archives are incomparable, and to celebrate the magazine's centennial, Don Share and Christian Wilman combed them to create a new kind of anthology, energized by the self-imposed limitation of one hundred poems. Rather than attempting to be exhaustive or definitive--or even to offer the most familiar works--they have assembled a collection of poems that, in their juxtapositions, echo across a century of poetry.
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Synthesizing Gravity gathers for the first time a thirty-year selection of Kay Ryan's probings into aesthetics, poetics, and the mind in pursuit of art. A bracing collection of critical prose, book reviews, and her private, previously unpublished soundings of poems and poets-including Robert Frost, Stevie Smith, Marianne Moore, William Bronk, and Emily Dickinson-Synthesizing Gravity bristles with Ryan's crisp wit, her keen off-kilter insights, and...
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In this poignant collection, Christian Wiman draws together one hundred evocative poems and prose fragments about home, exploring home's deep theological, literary, philosophical, historical, political, and social dimensions. Wiman calls home 'a house, a country, a language, a love, a longing, a grief, a god.' It's 'a word that disperses into more definitions than one book can contain.' The tensions between diffusion and concentration, roaming and...
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"One hundred of the most evocative modern poems on joy, selected by an award-winning contemporary poet. Christian Wiman, a poet known for his meditations on mortality, has long been fascinated by joy and by its relative absence in modern literature. Why is joy so resistant to language? How has it become so suspect in our times? Manipulated by advertisers, religious leaders, and politicians, joy can seem disquieting, even offensive. How does one speak...
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