Christian Wiman

Christian Wiman is the author of several books, including the memoirs My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer (FSG, 2013) and He Held Radical Light: The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art (FSG, 2018); Every Riven Thing (FSG, 2010), winner of the Ambassador Book Award in poetry; Once in the West (FSG, 2014), a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist in poetry; and Stolen Air: Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam. He teaches religion and literature at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and Yale Divinity School.
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Survival Is a Style
Christian Wiman
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Named as a 2020 Book of the Year by The Times Literary Supplement
Survival Is a Style, Christian Wiman’s first collection of new...
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He Held Radical Light
Christian Wiman
Picador
Picador
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...
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Hammer Is the Prayer
Christian Wiman
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A visionary selection from one of America’s foremost poets
One of the most distinctive voices in contemporary American poetry, Christian Wiman has forged a singular style that fuses...
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Once in the West
Christian Wiman
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
One of The New York Times' 10 Favorite Poetry Books of 2014
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
Winner of the 2015...
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My Bright Abyss
Christian Wiman
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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...
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Every Riven Thing
Christian Wiman
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A vibrant new collection from one of America's most talented young poets
Every Riven Thing is Christian Wiman's first collection in seven years, and rarely has...
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