My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer by Christian Wiman

My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer by Christian Wiman

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 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

Wiman, Christian: - Christian Wiman is the author of several books, including the memoirs My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer (FSG, 2013) and He Held Radical Light: The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art (FSG, 2018); Every Riven Thing (FSG, 2010), winner of the Ambassador Book Award in poetry; Once in the West (FSG, 2014), a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist in poetry; and Stolen Air: Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam. He teaches religion and literature at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and Yale Divinity School.

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ISBN 13	9780374534370
ISBN 10	0374534373
Title	My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer
Author	Christian Wiman
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
Year published	2014-04-01
Number of pages	192
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