Christian Wiman
Seven years ago, Christian Wiman, a well-known poet and the editor of ,Poetry, magazine, wrote a now-famous essay about having faith in the face of death. ,My Bright Abyss,, composed in the difficult years since and completed in the wake of a bone marrow transplant, is a moving meditation on what a viable contemporary faithâ€”responsive not only to modern thought and science but also to religious traditionâ€”might look like.,Joyful, sorrowful, and beautifully written, ,My Bright Abyss, is destined to become a spiritual classic, useful not only to believers but to anyone whose experience of life and art seems at times to overbrim its boundaries. How do we answer this â€œburn of beingâ€? Wiman asks. What might it mean for our livesâ€”and for our deathsâ€”if we acknowledge the â€œinsistent, persistent ghostâ€ that some of us call God?
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My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer