One hundred of the most evocative modern poems on joy, selected by
an award-winning contemporary poet "Bursting with energy and
surprising locutions. . . . Even the most familiar poets seem
somehow new within the context of Joy."-David Skeel, Wall Street
Journal "Wiman takes readers through the ostensible ordinariness of
life and reveals the extraordinary."-Adrianna Smith, The Atlantic
Christian Wiman, a poet known for his meditations on mortality, has
long been fascinated by joy and by its relative absence in modern
literature. Why is joy so resistant to language? How has it become
so suspect in our times? Manipulated by advertisers, religious
leaders, and politicians, joy can seem disquieting, even offensive.
How does one speak of joy amid such ubiquitous injustice and
suffering in the world? In this revelatory anthology, Wiman takes
readers on a profound and surprising journey through some of the
most underexplored terrain in contemporary life. Rather than define
joy for readers, he wants them to experience it. Ranging from Emily
Dickinson to Mahmoud Darwish and from Sylvia Plath to Wendell
Berry, he brings together diverse and provocative works as a kind
of counter to the old, modernist maxim "light writes white"-no
agony, no art. His rich selections awaken us to the essential role
joy plays in human life.
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