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Survival is a style /

"A new collection of verse on religious and personal themes from the award-winning poet Christian Wiman"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wiman, Christian, 1966- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Spiritual life > Poetry.
Poetry.
Table of Contents:
  • Survival Is A Style
  • To Eat The Awful While You Starve Your Awe
  • Drive, 1982
  • Summer River Rosie Dam
  • Eating Grapes Downward
  • Whatever The Birds Were
  • Fragment Of A Lost Scripture
  • Spirits
  • Gift
  • All My Friends Are Finding New Beliefs
  • One Love. 1 Sundays at Smilow ; 2 A Dusk ; 3 All You Shining Stars
  • Baloney
  • Land's End
  • Doing Lines At The Cocktail Party
  • Good Lord The Light
  • Poem Ending With A Sentence From Jacques Maritain
  • I Don't Want To Be A Spice Store
  • Watermelon Heaven
  • A McDonald's In Middle America
  • The Sound
  • Two Drinking Songs. 1 Up with a Twist ; 2 Neat
  • Ten Distillations
  • A Heresy
  • Assembly
  • And Someone Wrote It Down
  • The Priest At The Pool Party
  • A Sketch
  • Death Will Have To Be Careful Here
  • How Fun When Young
  • Something Of The Sky
  • Mild Dry Lines: An Exchange
  • Ah, Ego
  • The Parable Of Perfect Silence
  • Fifty
  • Even Bees Know What Zero Is
  • Faculty Meeting, Divinity School
  • Raccoon Problem
  • "Meaning Is Not Man's Gift To Reality"
  • "We Pray God To Be Free Of God"
  • Maundersong
  • Dancing With The Ding An Sich
  • A Light Store In The Bowery
  • Flight
  • Never Heaven
  • After A Lecture With My Love - Joy.