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, 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.
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