Christian Wiman braids poetry, memoir, and criticism to create an inspired, career-defining work.
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Christian Wiman is an American poet and editor whose work delves deeply into themes of faith, doubt, and human fragility. His verses often reflect personal struggles and spiritual seeking, maintaining a sharp introspection and profound emotional resonance. Wiman's style is marked by its unpretentious honesty and its capacity to find beauty and meaning even within the most difficult life experiences. His writing appeals to readers seeking poetry that is both challenging and uplifting.
- 2024
- 2021
Survival Is a Style
- 112 pages
- 4 hours of reading
Survival Is a Style, Christian Wiman’s first collection of new poems in six years, may be his best book yet. His many readers will recognize the musical and formal variety, the voice that can be tender and funny, credibly mystical and savagely skeptical. But there are many new notes in this collection as well, including a moving elegy to the poet’s father, sharp observations and distillations of modern American life, and rangy poems that merge and juxtapose different modes of speech and thought. The cumulative effect is extraordinary. Reading Survival Is a Style, one has the sense one is encountering work that will become a permanent part of American literature.