02906cam a2200421 4500 1753510269 TxAuBib 20241129120000.0 ||||||s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780374603465 0374603464 B0BQGJVCMT Amazon b7f73f88-f624-4cb2-b525-44284fc22d1b OverDrive (Reserve ID) 9497064 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Wiman, Christian. Zero at the Bone [Bridges eBook] : Fifty Entries Against Despair. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. he held radical light. survival is a style. my bright abyss. Christianity. morality. divinity. Religion. theology. cancer. Faith. God. HTML:<p><b>Christian Wiman braids poetry, memoir, and criticism to create an inspired, career-defining work.<br /></b> 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 <i>My Bright Abyss</i>, 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."<br /> <i>Zero at the Bone</i> 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 <i>why</i>?"), 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. <i>Zero at the Bone</i> is a revelation.</p>. Fiction. Poetry. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2024-11-27 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=b7f73f88-f624-4cb2-b525-44284fc22d1b&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=b7f73f88-f624-4cb2-b525-44284fc22d1b&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)