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Once in the West: Poems
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ISBN10: 0374227012
ISBN13: 9780374227012
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: Sep 9 2014
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
Awards: National Book Critics Circle Award
ISBN13: 9780374227012
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: Sep 9 2014
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
Awards: National Book Critics Circle Award
One of The New York Times' 10 Favorite Poetry Books of 2014
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Winner of the 2015 Philosophical Society of Texas Award of Merit in PoetryA searing new collection from one of our country's most important poets
Memories mercies
mostly aren't
but there were
I swear
days
veined with grace --from Memory's Mercies Once in the West, Christian Wiman's fourth collection, is as intense and intimate as poetry gets--from the suffering of primal silence that it plumbs to the rockshriek of joy that it achieves and enables. Readers of Wiman's earlier books will recognize the sharp characterizations and humor--From her I learned the earthworm's exemplary open-mindedness, / its engine of discriminate shit--as well as his particular brand of reverent rage: Lord if I implore you please just please leave me alone / is that a prayer that's every instant answered? But there is something new here, too: moving love poems to his wife, tender glimpses of his children, and, amid the onslaughts of illness and fear and failures, a trace / of peace.
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