He Held Radical Light

He Held Radical Light
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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages : 101
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ISBN-10 : 9780374717810
ISBN-13 : 0374717818
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Book Synopsis He Held Radical Light by : Christian Wiman

Download or read book He Held Radical Light written by Christian Wiman and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving meditation on memory, oblivion, and eternity by one of our most celebrated poets What is it we want when we can’t stop wanting? And how do we make that hunger productive and vital rather than corrosive and destructive? These are the questions that animate Christian Wiman as he explores the relationships between art and faith, death and fame, heaven and oblivion. Above all, He Held Radical Light is a love letter to poetry, filled with moving, surprising, and sometimes funny encounters with the poets Wiman has known. Seamus Heaney opens a suddenly intimate conversation about faith; Mary Oliver puts half of a dead pigeon in her pocket; A. R. Ammons stands up in front of an audience and refuses to read. He Held Radical Light is as urgent and intense as it is lively and entertaining—a sharp sequel to Wiman’s earlier memoir, My Bright Abyss.

My Bright Abyss

My Bright Abyss
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 194
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ISBN-10 : 9780374216788
ISBN-13 : 0374216789
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Book Synopsis My Bright Abyss by : Christian Wiman

Download or read book My Bright Abyss written by Christian Wiman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A passionate meditation on the consolations and disappointments of religion and poetry

Every Riven Thing

Every Riven Thing
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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages : 79
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ISBN-10 : 9781466878228
ISBN-13 : 1466878223
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Every Riven Thing by : Christian Wiman

Download or read book Every Riven Thing written by Christian Wiman and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-08-12 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vibrant new collection from one of America's most talented young poets Every Riven Thing is Christian Wiman's first collection in seven years, and rarely has a book of poetry so borne the stamp of necessity. Whether in stark, haiku-like descriptions of a cancer ward, surrealistic depictions of a social order coming apart, or fluent, defiant outpourings of praise, Wiman pushes his language and forms until they break open, revealing startling new truths within. The poems are joyful and sorrowful at the same time, abrasive and beautiful, densely physical and credibly mystical. They attest to the human hunger to feel existence, even at its most harrowing, and the power of art to make our most intense experiences not only apprehensible but transfiguring.

Ambition and Survival

Ambition and Survival
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Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
Total Pages : 274
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ISBN-10 : 9781619320932
ISBN-13 : 1619320932
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Ambition and Survival by : Christian Wiman

Download or read book Ambition and Survival written by Christian Wiman and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2013-06-14 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate first book of personal essays and incisive commentary from the editor of Poetry.

Survival Is a Style

Survival Is a Style
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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages : 112
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ISBN-10 : 9780374721411
ISBN-13 : 0374721416
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Survival Is a Style by : Christian Wiman

Download or read book Survival Is a Style written by Christian Wiman and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named as a 2020 Book of the Year by The Times Literary Supplement Survival Is a Style, Christian Wiman’s first collection of new poems in six years, may be his best book yet. His many readers will recognize the musical and formal variety, the voice that can be tender and funny, credibly mystical and savagely skeptical. But there are many new notes in this collection as well, including a moving elegy to the poet’s father, sharp observations and distillations of modern American life, and rangy poems that merge and juxtapose different modes of speech and thought. The cumulative effect is extraordinary. Reading Survival Is a Style, one has the sense one is encountering work that will become a permanent part of American literature.

Hammer Is the Prayer

Hammer Is the Prayer
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 225
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ISBN-10 : 9780374167745
ISBN-13 : 0374167745
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Hammer Is the Prayer by : Christian Wiman

Download or read book Hammer Is the Prayer written by Christian Wiman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The selected poems of American poet Christian Wiman"--

The Corner That Held Them

The Corner That Held Them
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Publisher : New York Review of Books
Total Pages : 425
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ISBN-10 : 9781681373881
ISBN-13 : 1681373882
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Corner That Held Them by : Sylvia Townsend Warner

Download or read book The Corner That Held Them written by Sylvia Townsend Warner and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique novel about life in a 14th-century convent by one of England's most original authors. Sylvia Townsend Warner’s The Corner That Held Them is a historical novel like no other, one that immerses the reader in the dailiness of history, rather than history as the given sequence of events that, in time, it comes to seem. Time ebbs and flows and characters come and go in this novel, set in the era of the Black Death, about a Benedictine convent of no great note. The nuns do their chores, and seek to maintain and improve the fabric of their house and chapel, and struggle with each other and with themselves. The book that emerges is a picture of a world run by women but also a story—stirring, disturbing, witty, utterly entrancing—of a community. What is the life of a community and how does it support, or constrain, a real humanity? How do we live through it and it through us? These are among the deep questions that lie behind this rare triumph of the novelist’s art.