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| Title |
My bright abyss : meditation of a modern believer / Christian Wiman |
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| Publisher |
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013 |
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| Edition |
1st edition |
| Phys Descr |
x, 182 pages ; 22 cm |
| 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 -- Million little oblivions |
| 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 |
| Subject |
Poetry -- Religious aspects
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Christianity and literature
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| OCLC # |
795174378 |
| ISBN # |
9780374216788 |
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0374216789 |
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