Christian Wiman
Born
in The United States
January 01, 1966
Genre
My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer
16 editions
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2013
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Every Riven Thing: Poems
7 editions
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2010
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He Held Radical Light: The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art
7 editions
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2018
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Once in the West: Poems
7 editions
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2014
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Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair
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Joy: 100 Poems
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Survival Is a Style: Poems
3 editions
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2020
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Ambition and Survival: Becoming a Poet
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2004
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Hammer Is the Prayer: Selected Poems
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Hard Night
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2005
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“What you must realize, what you must even come to praise, is the fact that there is no right way that is going to become apparent to you once and for all. The most blinding illumination that strikes and perhaps radically changes your life will be so attenuated and obscured by doubts and dailiness that you may one day come to suspect the truth of that moment at all. The calling that seemed so clear will be lost in echoes of questionings and indecision; the church that seemed to save you will fester with egos, complacencies, banalities; the deepest love of your life will work itself like a thorn in your heart until all you can think of is plucking it out. Wisdom is accepting the truth of this. Courage is persisting with life in spite of it. And faith is finding yourself, in the deepest part of your soul, in the very heart of who you are, moved to praise it.”
― My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer
― My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer
“Art is so often better at theology than theology is.”
― My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer
― My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer
“Let us remember...that in the end we go to poetry for one reason, so that we might more fully inhabit our lives and the world in which we live them, and that if we more fully inhabit these things, we might be less apt to destroy both.”
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