My bright abyss : meditation of a modern believer /
Christian Wiman.
- First edition.
- x, 182 pages ; 22 cm
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.
"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?