My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer

by Christian Wiman

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Seven 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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0374216789

ISBN13:9780374216788

Release Date:April 2013

Publisher:Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Length:182 Pages

Weight:0.73 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.7" x 8.4"

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