Posts Tagged ‘Christian Wiman’
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His Bright Abyss (with added link to compensate for weakness of blogpost)
0May 14, 2013 by Reader's Connection
Note: This review was perhaps the least adequate of any I’ve written, so a link to the book’s first chapter has been added below. I just finished reading Christian Wiman’s…
Category Book Review | Tags: Christian Wiman, My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer
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A God in the House: Poets Talk about Faith
0July 6, 2012 by Reader's Connection
Nineteen poets spoke with Ilya Kaminsky and Katherine Towler, the editors of A God in the House: Poets Talk about Faith. Coming from different backgrounds and engaging in different…
Category Book Review | Tags: A God in the House: Poets Talk about Faith, Christian Wiman, Grace Paley, Ilya Kaminsky, Jane Hirshfield, Katherine Towler
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From the Red Window
0August 22, 2011 by Reader's Connection
Early in the twentieth century, E.E. Cummings was as hot against materialist society as only a poet living on a trust fund can be. — Clive James, from “Product Placement…
Category Quotations | Tags: A loss of something ever felt I, Adrian Stasiak, Ambition and Survival: Becoming a Poet, Christian Wiman, Clive James, Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion, Emily Dickinson, Erik H. Erikson, Leonard Michaels, Love Bade Me Welcome, My Yiddish, Pema Chödrön, Poetry, Product Placement in Modern Poetry, The Essays of Leonard Michaels, The Red Window, Young Man Luther: A Study in Psychoanalysis and History
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Two Poems by Christian Wiman
0August 11, 2011 by Reader's Connection
Christian Wiman´s poems “Sleeping in the Open” and “Rhymes for a Watertower” are being reprinted from his collection Hard Night (©2005) by permission of Copper Canyon Press. …
Category Poem | Tags: Christian Wiman, Hard Night, Rhymes for a Watertower, Sleeping in the Open
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Poetry: The Month & The Magazine, with a Remembrance of Ruth Lilly
0March 29, 2010 by Reader's Connection
National Poetry Month begins this Thursday, and I´d like to set the stage with some links to the website of Poetry–a periodical to which we have a subscription at Central Library.…
Category Poem, Website Feature | Tags: Andrea Cohen, Christian Wiman, Cloud, Dorothea Grossman, Impromptu, J. Allyn Rosser, Kay Ryan, National Poetry Month, Poetry, Poetry Magazine, Prison Chaplain, Ruth Lilly, The Two Time I Loved You Most in a Car, Timothy Murphy, To Whom It May Concern


