Hammer Is the Prayer Selected Poems

Name: Hammer Is the Prayer Selected Poems
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ISBN: 9780374537319

ISBN-10: 0374537313

ISBN-13: 9780374537319

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Authors: Christian Wiman

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A visionary selection from one of America's foremost poets One of the most distinctive voices in contemporary American poetry, Christian Wiman has forged a singular style that fuses a vivid and propulsive music with clear-eyed realism, wry humor, and visionary lament. In his "daring and urgent" (The New York Times Book Review) memoir, My Bright Abyss, he asks, "What is poetry's role when the world is burning?" Hammer Is the Prayer: Selected Poems might be read as an answer to that question. From the taut forms of his first book to the darker, more jagged fluencies of his second, into the bold and pathbreaking poems of his last two collections, Hammer Is the Prayer bears the reckless,…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 11/14/2017
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.16" wide x 7.98" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

C. K. Williams is the author of eight books of poems, the most recent of which, "Repair", won the Pulitzer Prize & the "Los Angeles Times" Book Prize. He teaches in the Writing Program at Princeton University & lives part of the year in Paris.