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Zero at the Bone
Fifty Entries Against Despair
Buch von Christian Wiman
Sprache: Englisch

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Christian Wiman braids poetry, memoir, and criticism to create an inspired, career-defining work.
Few contemporary writers ask the questions about faith, morality, and God that Christian Wiman does, and even fewer-perhaps none-do so with his urgency and eloquence. Wiman, the author of My Bright Abyss and an award-winning poet, lays the motion of his mind on the page in this genre-defying work, an indivisible blend of poetry, criticism, theology, and searing memoir. As Marilynne Robinson wrote, "[Wiman's] poetry and his scholarship have a purifying urgency that is rare in this world . . . It enables him to say new things in timeless language, so that the reader's surprise and assent are one and the same."

Zero at the Bone begins with Wiman's preoccupation with despair, and through fifty brief pieces, framed by two more, he unravels its seductive appeal. The book is studded with the poetry and prose of writers who inhabit Wiman's thoughts, and the voices of Wallace Stevens, Lucille Clifton, Emily Dickinson, and more join his own. At its heart and Wiman's, however, are his family-his young children (who ask their own invaluable questions, like "Why are you a poet? I mean why?"), his wife, and those he grew up with in West Texas. Wiman is the rare thinker who takes up the mantle of our greatest mystics and does so with an honest, profound, and contemporary sensibility. Zero at the Bone is a revelation.
Christian Wiman braids poetry, memoir, and criticism to create an inspired, career-defining work.
Few contemporary writers ask the questions about faith, morality, and God that Christian Wiman does, and even fewer-perhaps none-do so with his urgency and eloquence. Wiman, the author of My Bright Abyss and an award-winning poet, lays the motion of his mind on the page in this genre-defying work, an indivisible blend of poetry, criticism, theology, and searing memoir. As Marilynne Robinson wrote, "[Wiman's] poetry and his scholarship have a purifying urgency that is rare in this world . . . It enables him to say new things in timeless language, so that the reader's surprise and assent are one and the same."

Zero at the Bone begins with Wiman's preoccupation with despair, and through fifty brief pieces, framed by two more, he unravels its seductive appeal. The book is studded with the poetry and prose of writers who inhabit Wiman's thoughts, and the voices of Wallace Stevens, Lucille Clifton, Emily Dickinson, and more join his own. At its heart and Wiman's, however, are his family-his young children (who ask their own invaluable questions, like "Why are you a poet? I mean why?"), his wife, and those he grew up with in West Texas. Wiman is the rare thinker who takes up the mantle of our greatest mystics and does so with an honest, profound, and contemporary sensibility. Zero at the Bone is a revelation.
Über den Autor
Christian Wiman is the author, editor, or translator of more than a dozen books of poetry and prose, including two memoirs, My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer and He Held Radical Light: The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art; Every Riven Thing, winner of the Ambassador Book Award; Once in the West, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist; and Survival Is a Style-all published by FSG. He teaches religion and literature at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and at Yale Divinity School.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Importe, Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780374603458
ISBN-10: 0374603456
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Wiman, Christian
Hersteller: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Maße: 214 x 144 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Christian Wiman
Erscheinungsdatum: 05.12.2023
Gewicht: 0,414 kg
Artikel-ID: 126299253
Über den Autor
Christian Wiman is the author, editor, or translator of more than a dozen books of poetry and prose, including two memoirs, My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer and He Held Radical Light: The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art; Every Riven Thing, winner of the Ambassador Book Award; Once in the West, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist; and Survival Is a Style-all published by FSG. He teaches religion and literature at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and at Yale Divinity School.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Importe, Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780374603458
ISBN-10: 0374603456
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Wiman, Christian
Hersteller: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Maße: 214 x 144 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Christian Wiman
Erscheinungsdatum: 05.12.2023
Gewicht: 0,414 kg
Artikel-ID: 126299253
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