My bright abyss
Subtitle: meditation of a modern believer
By: Christian Wiman
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780374216788
Subjects: Religion and poetry; Christianity and literature
Description: "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.
Table of contents: title: My bright abyss; title: Sorrow's flower; title: Tender interior; title: God's truth is life; title: O thou mastering light; title: Dear oblivion; title: Hive of nerves; title: God is not beyond; title: Varieties of quiet; title: Mortify our wolves; title: Million little oblivions.