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[It] enables him to say new things in timeless language, so that the reader's surprise and assent are one and the same.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eZero at the Bone\u003c\/i\u003e begins with Wiman's preoccupation with despair, and through fifty brief pieces, he unravels its seductive appeal. The book is studded with the poetry and prose of writers who inhabit Wiman's thoughts, and the voices of Wallace Stevens, Lucille Clifton, Emily Dickinson, and others join his own. At its heart and Wiman's, however, are his family--his young children (who ask their own invaluable questions, like \"Why are you a poet? I mean \u003ci\u003ewhy\u003c\/i\u003e?\"), his wife, and those he grew up with in West Texas. 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How do we answer this \"burn of being\"? Wiman asks. 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Whether in stark, haiku-like descriptions of a cancer ward, surrealistic depictions of a social order coming apart, or fluent, defiant outpourings of praise, Wiman pushes his language and forms until they break open, revealing startling new truths within. The poems are joyful and sorrowful at the same time, abrasive and beautiful, densely physical and credibly mystical. 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In his \"daring and urgent\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e) memoir, \u003ci\u003eMy Bright Abyss\u003c\/i\u003e, he asks, \"What is poetry's role when the world is burning?\" \u003ci\u003eHammer Is the Prayer: Selected Poems \u003c\/i\u003emight be read as an answer to that question. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e From the taut forms of his first book to the darker, more jagged fluencies of his second, into the bold and pathbreaking poems of his last two collections, \u003ci\u003eHammer Is the Prayer \u003c\/i\u003ebears the reckless, restless interrogations and the slashing lyric intensity that distinguish Wiman's verse. But it also reveals the dramatic and narrative abilities for which he has been widely praised--the junkyard man in \"Five Houses Down\" with his \"wonder-cluttered porch\" and \"the eyesore opulence \/ of his five partial cars,\" or the tragicomic character in \"Being Serious\" who suffers \"the world's idiocy \/ like a saint its pains.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eHammer Is the Prayer\u003c\/i\u003e brings together three decades of Wiman's acclaimed poetry. 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