{"product_id":"survival-is-a-style-poems-paperback","title":"Survival Is a Style: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChristian Wiman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed as a 2020 Book of the Year by \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSurvival Is a Style\u003c\/i\u003e, Christian Wiman's first collection of new poems in six years, may be his best book yet. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHis many readers will recognize the musical and formal variety, the voice that can be tender and funny, credibly mystical and savagely skeptical. But there are many new notes in this collection as well, including a moving elegy to the poet's father, sharp observations and distillations of modern American life, and rangy poems that merge and juxtapose different modes of speech and thought. The cumulative effect is extraordinary. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eReading \u003ci\u003eSurvival Is a Style\u003c\/i\u003e, one has the sense one is encountering work that will become a permanent part of American literature.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristian Wiman\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of several books, including the memoirs \u003ci\u003eMy Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer\u003c\/i\u003e (FSG, 2013) and \u003ci\u003eHe Held Radical Light: The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art\u003c\/i\u003e (FSG, 2018); the collection \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 112\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 16, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51768803131680,"sku":"9780374539337","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/9b5563dc917d466d7d9d43141558e0f7.webp?v=1780337589","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/survival-is-a-style-poems-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}