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My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer
Contributor(s): Wiman, Christian (Author)
ISBN: 0374534373     ISBN-13: 9780374534370
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
OUR PRICE:   $16.20  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: April 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Religious
- Religion | Christian Living - Spiritual Growth
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
Dewey: B
Physical Information: 0.51" H x 5.47" W x 8.34" (0.36 lbs) 192 pages
Themes:
- Religious Orientation - Christian
 
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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

Contributor Bio(s): Wiman, Christian: - Christian Wiman is the author of several books, including a memoir, My Bright Abyss Meditation of a Modern Believer (FSG, 2013); Every Riven Thing (FSG, 2010), winner of the Ambassador Book Award in poetry; and Stolen Air: Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam. From 2003 to 2013, he was the editor of Poetry magazine. He currently teaches religion and literature at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and Yale Divinity School. He lives in Connecticut.