On Joy: Three Poetry Anthologies
With impermanence and “praise for the devil” all around, it’s a gift to rediscover joy, no matter how fleeting.
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Posts Tagged: Christian Wiman
The Rumpus Interview with Christian Wiman
Poet and essayist Christian Wiman discusses landscape, elegy, and the strain between doubt and belief.
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Once in the West by Christian Wiman
Caitlin MacKenzie reviews Christian Wiman’s Once in the West today in Rumpus Poetry.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The Poet’s Journey: Chapter 5
There’s a unitary circulation between poet and reader. The poet dwells in the gap between dream and waking, and the reader is offered entryway to become alive and enlivened.
...moreDavid Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Naming Names
Michael Lista nails it with his review of The Open Door: One Hundred Years of Poetry Magazine, the anthology celebrating 100 years of Poetry, edited by Don Share and Chistian Wiman. University of Chicago hails the collection as a “new kind of anthology.” But it is less an anthology than a curatorial enterprise. It’s less […]
...moreNational Poetry Month Day 30: From “Sungone Noon” by Christian Wiman
Welcome to The Rumpus’s National Poetry Month project. We’ll be running a new poem from a different poet each day for the month of April. From “Sungone Noon” One raised goats;
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Hammer Is the Prayer of the Poor and the Dying
For [Christian] Wiman, form is the fire his feet are held to. It’s the syntactic embers that burn, the linguistic flames that flare. At no point does Wiman let the reader forget he is reading poetry.
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