Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair

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by Christian Wiman

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Christian Wiman braids poetry, memoir, and criticism to create an inspired, career-defining work.

Few contemporary writers ask the questions about faith, morality, and God that Christian Wiman does, and even fewer--perhaps none--do so with his urgency and eloquence. Wiman, an award-winning poet and the author of My Bright Abyss, lays the motion of his mind on the page in this genre-defying work, an indivisible blend of poetry, criticism, theology, and searing memoir. As Marilynne Robinson wrote, "[Wiman's] poetry and his scholarship have a purifying urgency that is rare in this world . . . [It] enables him to say new things in timeless language, so that the reader's surprise and assent are one and the same."

Zero at the Bone 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 why?"), his wife, and those he grew up with in West Texas. Wiman is the rare thinker who takes on the mantle of our greatest mystics and does so with an honest, profound, and contemporary sensibility. Zero at the Bone is a revelation.

Publisher:: Picador USA
ISBN:: 9781250338419
Binding:: Paperback
Pages:: 320
Authors:: Christian Wiman
Published Date:: 2024-12-03
Language:: English

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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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