Hammer Is the Prayer: Selected Poems

by Christian Wiman

Book Overview

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 a vivid and propulsive music with clear-eyed realism, wry humor, and visionary lament. In his "daring and urgent" (The New York Times Book Review) memoir, My Bright Abyss, he asks, "What is poetry's role when the world is burning?" Hammer...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374537313
• ISBN13: 9780374537319
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.9"