{"product_id":"hammer-is-the-prayer-selected-poems-paperback","title":"Hammer Is the Prayer: Selected Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChristian Wiman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA visionary selection from one of America's foremost poets\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne 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\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e) memoir, \u003ci\u003eMy Bright Abyss\u003c\/i\u003e, he asks, \"What is poetry's role when the world is burning?\" \u003ci\u003eHammer Is the Prayer: Selected Poems \u003c\/i\u003emight be read as an answer to that question. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eHammer Is the Prayer \u003c\/i\u003ebears 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eHammer Is the Prayer\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristian Wiman\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of several books, including a memoir, \u003ci\u003eMy Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer\u003c\/i\u003e (FSG, 2013); \u003ci\u003eEvery Riven Thing\u003c\/i\u003e (FSG, 2010), winner of the Ambassador Book Award in poetry; \u003ci\u003eOnce in the West\u003c\/i\u003e (FSG, 2014), a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist in poetry; and \u003ci\u003eStolen Air: Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam\u003c\/i\u003e. He teaches religion and literature at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and Yale Divinity School.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.9 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 14, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51758675788064,"sku":"9780374537319","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/50c18b806a4a0b6afe51933d5c625b59.webp?v=1780132280","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/hammer-is-the-prayer-selected-poems-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}