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Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair
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Reflections on resisting despair, finding meaning.
If you've ever felt like the weight of the world is too heavy, "Zero at the Bone" might resonate deeply with you. It's a thought-provoking exploration of how we can stand against despair, even when it feels overwhelming. The book offers a lantern of hope and an intellectual companion for those moments when you're searching for light in the darkness.
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair
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ISBN: 9780374603458
Authors:
Christian Wiman
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date of Publication: 2023-12-05
Format: Hardcover
Goodreads rating: 4.17
(rated by 509 readers)
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Christian Wiman braids poetry, memoir, and criticism to create an inspired, career-defining work. Few contemporary writers ask the questions about faith, morality, and God that Christian Wiman does, and even fewer—perhaps none—do so with his urgency and eloquence. Wiman, an award-winning poet and the author of My Bright Abyss, lays the motion of his mind on the page in this genre-defying work, an indivisible blend of poetry, criticism, theology, and searing memoir. As Marilynne Robinson wrote, “[Wiman's] poetry and his scholarship have a purifying urgency that is rare in this world . . . It enables him to say new things in timeless language, so that the reader’s surprise and assent are one and the same.” Zero at the Bone begins with Wiman’s preoccupation with despair, and through fifty brief pieces, he unravels its seductive appeal. The book is studded with the poetry and prose of writers who inhabit Wiman’s thoughts, and the voices of Wallace Stevens, Lucille Clifton, Emily Dickinson, and others join his own. At its heart and Wiman’s, however, are his family—his young children (who ask their own invaluable questions, like “Why are you a poet? I mean why?”), his wife, and those he grew up with in West Texas. Wiman is the rare thinker who takes up
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Reflections on resisting despair, finding meaning.
If you've ever felt like the weight of the world is too heavy, "Zero at the Bone" might resonate deeply with you. It's a thought-provoking exploration of how we can stand against despair, even when it feels overwhelming. The book offers a lantern of hope and an intellectual companion for those moments when you're searching for light in the darkness.
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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