Zero at the Bone
Fifty Entries Against Despair
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023, ©2023.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: x, 306 pages ; 22 cm
"Christian Wiman, a thinker "at the very source of theology" (Marilynne Robinson), braids poetry, memoir, and criticism to create an inspired, career-defining work"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
I will love you in the summertime -- The world sounds -- So trued to a roar -- A stronger name for life -- Can this sin live -- Issues of blood -- Particular flesh -- The man who planted peace -- The keep -- A prison gets to be a friend -- Professor of the practice of religiion and literature -- Smart -- No epiphanies, please -- Kill the creature -- Ars poetica -- Faith comes through hearing -- Flashback -- so it be ours -- D., gardening -- Leopard breathes at last! -- The drift of the world -- Reading Pascal in quarantine -- How many days -- Drop a notch in the sacred shield -- After the ballet -- a birning world -- I remember yesterday. The world was so young. -- The white buffalo -- How to live -- Bomb -- Remembering a city and a sickness -- Writing in the sand -- The uses of fiction -- I learn from her who learns from the air -- this I believe -- A sign in the void -- The rock and the rot -- Joy! Help! Joy! help! -- The weakness meaning time -- Bone by bone -- Ifs eternally -- I sang pain -- A mammal's notebook -- I don't believe in the soul -- What the Western mystic -- My Christ -- Woman, with tomato -- the eft -- The cancer chair -- No omen but awe -- Zero -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
ISBN:
9780374603458
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