Christian Wiman
Christian Wiman is the author of several books, including a memoir, My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer (FSG, 2013); Every Riven Thing (FSG, 2010), winner of the Ambassador Book Award in poetry; and Stolen Air: Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam. From 2003 to 2013, he was the editor of Poetry magazine. He currently teaches religion and literature at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and Yale Divinity School. He lives in Connecticut.
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October 18, 2018
Meet award-winning poet and memoirist Christian Wiman as he reads from his book, He Held Radical Light: The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art.
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He Held Radical Light
A moving meditation on memory, oblivion, and eternity by one of our most celebrated poets
What is it we want when we can’t stop wanting? And how do we make that hunger productive and...
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He Held Radical Light
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Hammer Is the Prayer
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Once in the West
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One of The New York Times' 10 Favorite Poetry Books of 2014
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
Winner of the 2015 Philosophical Society of Texas...
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My Bright Abyss
Christian Wiman
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Eight 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...
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Every Riven Thing
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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A vibrant new collection from one of America's most talented young poets
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