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  title info:
    title: Zero at the bone
    sub title: fifty entries against despair
  name:
    name part: Wiman, Christian
    name part: 1966-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 306 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: 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 up the mantle of our greatest mystics and does so with an honest, profound and contemporary sensibility. Zero at the Bone is a revelation.
  note: Christian Wiman.
  note: Includes index.
  subject:
    topic: Essays
  subject:
    topic: Poetry
  classification: PS3573.I47843 Z34 2023
  classification: 818/.54
  identifier: 9780374603458
  identifier: 0374603456
  identifier: 2023026123
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 230626
    record change date: 20240119175412.4
    record identifier: in00004763986