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Every Riven Thing - The Poetry Shop

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Every Riven Thing

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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 a book of poetry so borne the stamp of necessity. 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. They attest to the human hunger to feel existence, even at its most harrowing, and the power of art to make our most intense experiences not only apprehensible but transfiguring.

Book Details

Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN:
9780374533069
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
112
Authors:
Christian Wiman
Published Date:
2011-10-25
Language:
English

About Christian Wiman

Editor of Poetry magazine from 2003 to 2013, Christian Wiman is an American poet raised in West Texas who earned a BA from Washington and Lee University. His poetry collections include Every Riven Thing (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010), and his essay collection My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer appeared from the same publisher in 2013. Wiman teaches at Yale Divinity School and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, where he joined the faculty in 2013. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship, and earlier held a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University.

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