Farrar, Straus and Giroux
April 2013
On Sale: April 2, 2013
192 pages ISBN: 0374216789 EAN: 9780374216788 Kindle: B00ANI9EJ2 Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
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 faithβresponsive not only to modern thought and science but also to religious traditionβmight 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 βburn of beingβ? Wiman asks. What might it mean for our livesβand for our deathsβif we acknowledge the βinsistent, persistent ghostβ that some of us call God?
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