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Christian Wiman braids poetry, memoir, and criticism to create an inspired, career-defining work. Few contemporary writers ask the questions about faith, morality, and God that Christian Wiman does, and even fewer--perhaps none--do so with his urgency and eloquence. Wiman, an award-winning poet and the author of My Bright Abyss, lays the motion of his mind on the page in this genre-defying work, an indivisible blend of poetry, criticism, theol...

Christian Wiman braids poetry, memoir, and criticism to create an inspired, career-defining work. Few contemporary writers ask the questions about faith, morality, and God that Christian Wiman does, and even fewer-perhaps none-do so with his urgency and eloquence. Wiman, the author of My Bright Abyss and an award-winning poet, lays the motion of his mind on the page in this genre-defying work, an indivisible blend of poetry, criticism, theolog...

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 bea...

Evocative poems and prose fragments about home, selected by one of the most celebrated poets of our time

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...

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...

One hundred of the most evocative modern poems on joy, selected by an award-winning contemporary poet“Bursting with energy and surprising locutions. . . . Even the most familiar poets seem somehow new within the context of Joy.�‿David Skeel, Wall Street Journal   “Wiman takes readers through the ostensible ordinariness of life and reveals the extraordinary.�‿Adrianna Smith, The Atlantic   Christian Wiman, a poet known for his me...

A moving meditation on memory, oblivion, and eternity by one of our most celebrated poetsWhat 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 m...

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A moving meditation on memory, oblivion, and eternity by one of our most celebrated poets.

One hundred of the most evocative modern poems on joy, selected by an award-winning contemporary poet

A visionary selection from one of America's foremost poetsOne of the most distinctive voices in contemporary American poetry, Christian Wiman has forged a singular style that fuses a vivid and propulsive music with clear-eyed realism, wry humor, and visionary lament. In his "daring and urgent" (The New York Times Book Review) memoir, My Bright Abyss, he asks, "What is poetry's role when the world is burning?" Hammer Is the Prayer: Selected Poe...

A passionate meditation on the consolations and disappointments of religion and poetry. Wiman, an award-winning poet and the editor of "Poetry" magazine, was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, he began to question what his Christian beliefs and his love of poetry could really do.

One of The New York Times' 10 Favorite Poetry Books of 2014National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistWinner of the 2015 Philosophical Society of Texas Award of Merit in PoetryA searing new collection from one of our country's most important poetsMemories merciesmostly aren'tbut there wereI swear daysveined with grace-from "Memory's Mercies"Once in the West, Christian Wiman's fourth collection, is as intense and intimate as poetry gets-from th...

The pioneering new editor of Poetry magazine is "a poet we will reckon with over time."--Kirkus Reviews