Survival is a style / Christian Wiman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wiman, Christian, 1966- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spiritual life--Poetry.

Spiritual life.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

ix, 89 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.

Summary:

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

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 93).

ISBN:

9780374272050

0374272050

OCLC:

1121424871