My Bright Abyss

My Bright Abyss
Author: Christian Wiman
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2013-04-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0374216789

A passionate meditation on the consolations and disappointments of religion and poetry

He Held Radical Light

He Held Radical Light
Author: Christian Wiman
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 101
Release: 2018-09-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0374717818

A moving meditation on memory, oblivion, and eternity by one of our most celebrated poets What is it we want when we can’t stop wanting? And how do we make that hunger productive and vital rather than corrosive and destructive? These are the questions that animate Christian Wiman as he explores the relationships between art and faith, death and fame, heaven and oblivion. Above all, He Held Radical Light is a love letter to poetry, filled with moving, surprising, and sometimes funny encounters with the poets Wiman has known. Seamus Heaney opens a suddenly intimate conversation about faith; Mary Oliver puts half of a dead pigeon in her pocket; A. R. Ammons stands up in front of an audience and refuses to read. He Held Radical Light is as urgent and intense as it is lively and entertaining—a sharp sequel to Wiman’s earlier memoir, My Bright Abyss.

Every Riven Thing

Every Riven Thing
Author: Christian Wiman
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 79
Release: 2014-08-12
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1466878223

A vibrant new collection from one of America's most talented young poets Every Riven Thing is Christian Wiman's first collection in seven years, and rarely has a book of poetry so borne the stamp of necessity. Whether in stark, haiku-like descriptions of a cancer ward, surrealistic depictions of a social order coming apart, or fluent, defiant outpourings of praise, Wiman pushes his language and forms until they break open, revealing startling new truths within. The poems are joyful and sorrowful at the same time, abrasive and beautiful, densely physical and credibly mystical. They attest to the human hunger to feel existence, even at its most harrowing, and the power of art to make our most intense experiences not only apprehensible but transfiguring.

The Bright Abyss

The Bright Abyss
Author: Jacob Hess
Publisher:
Total Pages: 456
Release: 2020-10-15
Genre:
ISBN:

Jeremiah Bradford was just a mechanic's son living on Movaria, in bustling Canvar City, when his father passed away, leaving him a family heirloom wrapped in mystery. Little did he know that what his father left behind would start him on a journey to unravel the truths of the stories he grew up with; stories of a good creator and a primordial evil bent on dragging the world into his darkness. Follow Jeremiah and his companions as they face the violence of a universe divided and come to grips with the darkness within and without. Through tragic losses, space battles, and the secrets of the past, Jeremiah wrestles with his own calling and the fear that keeps him from becoming the hero his father always believed he could be.

Survival Is a Style

Survival Is a Style
Author: Christian Wiman
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2020-02-04
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0374721416

Named as a 2020 Book of the Year by The Times Literary Supplement 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.

The Bright Hour

The Bright Hour
Author: Nina Riggs
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2017-06-06
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1501169351

"Built on her ... Modern Love column, 'When a Couch is More Than a Couch' (9/23/2016), a ... memoir of living meaningfully with 'death in the room' by the 38-year-old great-great-great granddaughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson--mother to two young boys, wife of 16 years--after her terminal cancer diagnosis"--

Song of the Abyss

Song of the Abyss
Author: Makiia Lucier
Publisher: Clarion Books
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2019
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0544968581

When men start vanishing at sea without a trace, seventeen-year-old Reyna, a Master Explorer, must travel to a country shrouded in secrets to solve the mystery before it is too late.

Ambition and Survival

Ambition and Survival
Author: Christian Wiman
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2013-06-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1619320932

An intimate first book of personal essays and incisive commentary from the editor of Poetry.

The Light at the Bottom of the World

The Light at the Bottom of the World
Author: London Shah
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2019-10-04
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1368044530

From debut author London Shah, comes a thrilling futuristic Sci-Fi mystery perfect for fans of Illuminae and These Broken Stars.In the last days of the twenty-first century, sea creatures swim through the ruins of London. Trapped in the abyss, humankind wavers between hope and fear of what lurks in the depths around them, and hope that they might one day find a way back to the surface. When sixteen-year-old submersible racer Leyla McQueen is chosen to participate in the city's prestigious annual marathon, she sees an opportunity to save her father, who has been arrested on false charges. The Prime Minister promises the champion whatever their heart desires. But the race takes an unexpected turn, forcing Leyla to make an impossible choice. Now she must brave unfathomable waters and defy a corrupt government determined to keep its secrets, all the while dealing with a guarded, hotheaded companion she never asked for in the first place. If Leyla fails to discover the truths at the heart of her world, or falls prey to her own fears, she risks capture-or worse. And her father will be lost to her forever.