Description: Further DetailsTitle: Hammer Is the PrayerCondition: NewDescription: A visionary selection from one of America's foremost poetsOne 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, restless interrogations and the slashing lyric intensity that distinguish Wiman's verse. But it also reveals the dramatic and narrative abilities for which he has been widely praised-the junkyard man in "Five Houses Down" with his "wonder-cluttered porch" and "the eyesore opulence / of his five partial cars," or the tragicomic character in "Being Serious" who suffers "the world's idiocy / like a saint its pains." Hammer Is the Prayer brings together three decades of Wiman's acclaimed poetry. Selected by the author, these poems reveal the singular music and metaphysical urgency that have attracted so many readers to his work and firmly assert his place as one of the most essential poets of our time.Author: Christian WimanCountry/Region of Manufacture: USEAN: 9780374537319Format: PaperbackGenre: Poetry & DramaISBN: 9780374537319ISBN-10: 0374537313Item Height: 202mmItem Length: 122mmItem Weight: 256gItem Width: 17mmLanguage: EnglishPublisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncRelease Date: 11/14/2017Subtitle: Selected PoemsRelease Year: 2017 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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EAN: 9780374537319
ISBN: 9780374537319
ISBN-10: 0374537313
Publication Name: Hammer Is the Prayer
Release Date: 11/14/2017
Release Year: 2017
Subtitle: Selected Poems
Title: Hammer Is the Prayer
Book Title: Hammer Is the Prayer : Selected Poems
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication Year: 2017
Topic: General, American / General
Item Height: 0.6 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Poetry
Item Weight: 7.1 Oz
Author: Christian Wiman
Item Length: 8.2 in
Item Width: 5.8 in
Format: Trade Paperback
