Hammer Is the Prayer: Selected Poems 4th nonfiction For six years

For six years

sometimes deeply joyous

and Madeline's Rescue

" -- The Globe and Mail

to the disorientations of a deconstructing faith

Hammer Is the Prayer: Selected Poems 4th nonfiction For six yearsA 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