Hammer is the Prayer: Selected Poems

by Christian Wiman

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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...

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  • ISBN10 0374167745
  • ISBN13 9780374167745
  • Publish Date 15 November 2016
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 10 September 2021
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 224
  • Language English