Make no mistake: Christian Wiman’s poetic endeavors are ambitious. From the personal lyrics of solitude and loss to “Being Serious,” the long poem that concludes Hard Night, his poems examine emotions
"That calling, at once religious, ethical, and aesthetic, is one that only a genuine poet can hear—and very few poets can explain it as compellingly as Mr. Wiman does. That gift is what makes Ambition
Seven 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 year
A visionary selection from one of America's foremost poetsOne of the most distinctive voices in contemporary American poetry, Christian Wiman has forged a singular style that fuses a vivid and propuls
A vibrant new collection from one of America's most talented young poetsEvery Riven Thing is Christian Wiman’s first collection in seven years, and rarely has a book of poetry so borne the stam
A moving meditation on memory, oblivion, and eternity by one of our most celebrated poetsWhat is it we want when we can’t stop wanting? And how do we make that hunger productive and vital rather than
A searing new collection from one of our country’s most important poetsTypically cryptic, God said three weasels slipping electric over the rocksone current conducting them up the treeby the river in
One of The New York Times' 10 Favorite Poetry Books of 2014National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistA searing new collection from one of our country's most important poetsMemories merciesmostly aren
A visionary selection from one of America’s foremost poetsOne of the most distinctive voices in contemporary American poetry, Christian Wiman has forged a singular style that fuses a vivid and propuls
A vibrant new collection from one of America's most talented young poetsEvery Riven Thing is Christian Wiman’s first collection in seven years, and rarely has a book of poetry so borne the stamp of ne
A moving meditation on memory, oblivion, and eternity by one of our most celebrated poetsWhat is it we want when we can’t stop wanting? And how do we make that hunger productive and vital rather than
A poet and a man of strong Christian faith meditates on life, death and being an artist after being diagnosed with a rare form of cancer and describes how he dealt with the creeping doubts and the inc
Evocative poems and prose fragments about home, selected by one of the most celebrated poets of our time In this poignant collection, Christian Wiman draws together one hundred evocative poems and pr
One hundred of the most evocative modern poems on joy, selected by an award-winning contemporary poet Christian Wiman, a poet known for his meditations on mortality, has long been fascinated by joy an
Collects poems featured in "Poetry" magazine since its inception in 1912, including works by Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Ruth Stone, Margaret Atwood, Adrienne Rich, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Sylvia Plath.
