My Bright Abyss

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"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. Seven years ago, Wiman, a well-known poet and the editor of Poetry magazine, wrote a now-famous essay about having faith in the face of death. Now he presents a moving meditation on what a viable contemporary faith-- responsive not only to modern thought and science but also to religious tradition-- might look like. How do we answer this "burn of being"? Wiman asks. What might it mean for our lives-- and for our deaths-- if we acknowledge the "insistent, persistent ghost" that some of us call God? Read more... Abstract: "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. Seven years ago, Wiman, a well-known poet and the editor of Poetry magazine, wrote a now-famous essay about having faith in the face of death. Now he presents a moving meditation on what a viable contemporary faith-- responsive not only to modern thought and science but also to religious tradition-- might look like. How do we answer this "burn of being"? Wiman asks. What might it mean for our lives-- and for our deaths-- if we acknowledge the "insistent, persistent ghost" that some of us call God?