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
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
