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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 faithresponsive not only to modern thought and science but also to religious. Christian wimanhimself a fine poet and translator of the russian poet and essayist osip mandelstamcontemplates the meaning of poetic incarnation in specifically christian terms, drawing on a wide range of authors. From 2003 to 20, he was the editor of poetry magazine. What you must realize, what you must even come to praise, is the fact that there is no. My bright abyss is a rare and beautiful book, a sustained meditation on faith so honest and searching that it will, i suspect, leave many readers with a new appreciation for the possibilities of faith in their own. This is the perilous posture occupied by the poet christian wiman in his memoir my bright abyss. Meditation of a modern believer farrar, straus and giroux, 20. Seven years ago, christian wiman, a wellknown poet and the editor of poetry magazine, wrote a nowfamous essay about ha. Meditation of a modern believer christian wiman 20190619t00. The book concludes with a portrait of wimans diagnosis with a rare cancer, and a cleareyed. 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 faithresponsive not only to modern thought and science but also to. He graduated from washington and lee university and has taught at northwestern university, stanford university, lynchburg college in virginia, and the prague school of economics. I read a number of other books during the same time, but my bright abyss was never far from my mind. He is the author of the books of poetry once in the west.
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Wiman is the author of three collections of poetrythe long home. Christian wiman my bright abyss excerpt the englewood. The plot of my bright abyss is the evolution of christian wiman, a west texas boy, into christian wiman, the author of my bright abyss. Poems fsg, 2014 and every riven thing fsg, 2010 and the memoir my bright abyss. Its not for nothing that someone else called wiman the atheist christian. Mar 29, 20 this is the perilous posture occupied by the poet christian wiman in his memoir my bright abyss. Christian wiman is the author most recently of my bright abyss. He is professor of the practice of religion and literature at. A poet grapples with faith and death in the abyss wbur. Christian wiman is the author of numerous books, including my bright abyss.
Christian wiman is the author of eight books, including a memoir, my bright abyss. My bright abyss meditation of a modern believer christian wiman keywords. As the author struggles to understand god, he also struggles to comprehend the institution of christianity, seeing in it deep flaws, an inability to fully grasp the depth of the. Seven years ago, christian wiman, a wellknown poet and the editor. Permission required for reprinting, reproducing, or other uses. My bright abyss, composed in the difficult years since.
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