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 tran
One of The New York Times' 10 Favorite Poetry Books of 2014National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistWinner of the 2015 Philosophical Society of Texas Award of Merit in PoetryA searing new collection from one of our country's most important poetsMemories
A vibrant new collection from one of America's most talented young poetsEvery 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 new selection and translation of the work of Osip Mandelstam, perhaps the most important Russian poet of the twentieth century.Political nonconformist Osip Mandelstam's opposition to Stalin's totalitarian government made him a target of the communist st
