My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer

by Christian Wiman

Book Overview

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 the difficult years since and completed in the wake of a bone marrow transplant, is a moving meditation on what a viable contemporary faith--responsive not only to modern thought and science but also to religious tradition--might look like.
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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374534373
• ISBN13: 9780374534370
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.3"