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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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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 faithโresponsive not only to modern thought and science but also to religious traditionโmight 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 โburn of beingโ? Wiman asks. What might it mean for our livesโand for our deathsโif we acknowledge the โinsistent, persistent ghostโ that some of us call God?
 Media BuzzOn Point - April 5, 2013
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