Christian Wiman

Survival Is a Style

Poems

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Named as a 2020 Book of the Year by The Times Literary Supplement Survival Is a Style, Christian Wiman's first collection of new poems in six years, may be his best book yet. His 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. Reading Survival Is a Style, one has the sense one is encountering work that will become a permanent part of American literature.

---

Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Seitenzahl: 112
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 207mm x 133mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 112g
• ISBN-13: 9780374539337
• ISBN-10: 0374539332
• Artikelnr.: 59476421

Autorenporträt

Christian Wiman

Inhaltsangabe

I.
Survival is Style
To Eat the Awful While you Starve the Awe
Drive, 1982
Summer River Rosie Dam
Eating Grapes Downward
Whatever the Birds Were
Fragment of A Lost Scripture
Spirits
All My Friends Are Finding New Beliefs
One Love
1. Sundays at Smilow
2. A Dusk
3. All You Shining Stars
Baloney
Land's End
Doing Lines at the Cocktail Party
Good Lord the Light
Poem Ending with A Sentence from Jacques Maritain
I Don't Want to be A Spice Store
II.
Watermelon Heaven
A McDonald's in Middle America
The Sound
Two Drinking Songs
1. Up with a Twist
2. Neat
Ten Distillations
A Heresy
Assembly
And Someone Wrote it Down
The Priest at the Pool Party
A Sketch
Death Will Have to be Careful Here
How Fun When Young
Something of the Sky
Mild Dry Lines: An Exchange
Ah, Ego
III.
The Parable of Perfect Silence
IV.
Fifty
Even Bees Know What Zero Is
Faculty Meeting, Divinity School
Raccoon Problem
"Meaning is not Man's Gift to Reality"
"We Pray God to be Free of God"
Maundersong
Dancing with the Ding An Sich
A Light Store in the Bowery
Flight
Never Heaven
After a Lecture with My Love
Joy
Epilogue
Notes
Acknowledgments