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Meditation of a Modern Believer
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
April 2013
On Sale: April 2, 2013
192 pages
ISBN: 0374216789
EAN: 9780374216788
Kindle: B00ANI9EJ2
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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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