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My Bright Abyss, April 2013
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MY BRIGHT ABYSS
By: Christian Wiman

Meditation of a Modern Believer

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
April 2013
On Sale: April 2, 2013
192 pages
ISBN: 0374216789
EAN: 9780374216788
Kindle: B00ANI9EJ2
Hardcover / e-Book
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Fiction Poetry

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 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?

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On Point - April 5, 2013