{"product_id":"my-bright-abyss-meditation-of-a-modern-believer-9780374534370","title":"My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer","description":"\u003cp\u003eEight years ago, Christian Wiman, a well-known poet and the editor of \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, wrote a now-famous essay about having faith in the face of death. \u003ci\u003eMy Bright Abyss\u003c\/i\u003e, composed in the difficult years since and completed in the wake of a bone marrow transplant, is a moving meditation on what a viable contemporary faith--responsive not only to modern thought and science but also to religious tradition--might look like. \u003cbr\u003eJoyful, sorrowful, and beautifully written, \u003ci\u003eMy Bright Abyss\u003c\/i\u003e is destined to become a spiritual classic, useful not only to believers but to anyone whose experience of life and art seems at times to overbrim its boundaries. How do we answer this \"burn of being\"? Wiman asks. What might it mean for our lives--and for our deaths--if we acknowledge the \"insistent, persistent ghost\" that some of us call God? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Religion Books of 2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristian Wiman\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of six previous books, most recently \u003ci\u003eEvery Riven Thing \u003c\/i\u003e(FSG, 2010), winner of the Ambassador Book Award in poetry, and \u003ci\u003eStolen Air: Selected \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ePoems of Osip Mandelstam\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50610357043474,"sku":"9780374534370","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_82fe7c0c-8b10-4e81-a5f9-9b266eef298d.jpg?v=1732340447","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/my-bright-abyss-meditation-of-a-modern-believer-9780374534370","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}