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My bright abyss : meditation of a modern believer / Christian Wiman.
Van Pelt Library PS3573.I47843 M9 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wiman, Christian, 1966-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poetry--Religious aspects.
- Poetry.
- Christianity and literature.
- Physical Description:
- x, 182 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.
- Summary:
- "Composed in the difficult years since [having written a now-famous essay about having faith in the face of death] and completed in the wake of a bone marrow transplant, [this book] is a ... meditation on what a viable contemporary faith--responsive not only to modern thought and science but also to religious tradition--might feel like"--Dust jacket flap.
- Contents:
- My bright abyss
- Sorrow's flower
- Tender interior
- God's truth is life
- O thou mastering light
- Dear oblivion
- Hive of nerves
- God is not beyond
- Varieties of quiet
- Mortify our wolves
- A million little oblivions.
- ISBN:
- 9780374216788
- 0374216789
- OCLC:
- 795174378
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