TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wiman,Christian
TI  - My bright abyss: meditation of a modern believer 
SN  - 9780374216788 (alk. paper)
AV  - PS3573.I47843 M9 2013
U1  - 814/.54 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York
PB  - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
KW  - Religion and poetry
KW  - Christianity and literature
KW  - fast
KW  - Lyrik
KW  - gnd
KW  - Religion
KW  - Christentum
N1  - 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
N2  - "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?
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