Zero at the bone : fifty entries against despair
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Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2023].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 306 pages ; 22 cm
Status
Cambria Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Adult Non-Fiction
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818.54
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Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2023].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Notes
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Includes index.
Description
"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....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 up the mantle of our greatest mystics and does so with an honest, profound, and contemporary sensibility. Zero at the Bone is a revelation." --publisher's website.
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