num_pages: 182
description: 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 faithresponsive not only to modern thought and science but also to religious traditionmight 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 burn of being? Wiman asks. What might it mean for our livesand for our deathsif we acknowledge the insistent persistent ghost that some of us call God?
language: English
title: My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux