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Ambition And Survival: Becoming A Poet
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Blazing High Style Is How The New York Times Describes The Prose Of Christian Wiman, The Young Editor Who Transformed Poetry, The Countrys Oldest Literary Magazine.Ambition And Survival Is A Collection Of Stirring Personal Essays And Critical Prose On A Wide Range Of Subjects: Reading Milton In Guatemala, Recalling Violent Episodes Of His Youth, And Traveling In Africa With His Eccentric Father, As Well As A Series Of Penetrating Essays On Writers As Diverse As Thomas Hardy And Janet Lewis. The Book Concludes With A Portrait Of Wimans Diagnosis Of A Rare Form Of Incurable And Lethal Cancer, And How Mortality Reignited His Religious Passions.When I Was Twenty Years Old I Set Out To Be A Poet. That Sounds Like I Was A Sort Of Frigate Raising Anchor, And In A Way I Guess I Was, Though Susceptible To The Lightest Of Winds. . . . When I Read Samuel Johnsons Comment That Any Young Man Could Compensate For His Poor Education By Reading Five Hours A Day For Five Years, Thats Exactly What I Tried To Do, Practically Setting A Timer Every Afternoon To Let Me Know When The Little Egg Of My Brain Was Boiled. Its A Small Miracle That I Didnt Take To Wearing A Cape.Praise For Ambition And SurvivalThat Calling, At Once Religious, Ethical, And Aesthetic, Is One That Only A Genuine Poet Can Hearand Very Few Poets Can Explain It As Compellingly As Mr. Wiman Does. That Gift Is What Makes Ambition And Survival, Not Just One Of The Best Books Of Poetry Criticism In A Generation, But A Spiritual Memoir Of The First Order.New York SunThis Weighty First Prose Collection Should Inspire Wide Attention, Partly Because Of Wiman'S Current Job, Partly Because Of His Astute Insights And Partly Because He Mixes Poetry Criticism With Sometimes Shocking Memoir...The Collection'S Greatest Strength Comes In General Ruminations On The Writing, Reading And Judging Poetry. Publishers Weekly[Wiman Is] A Terrific Personal Essayist, As This New Collection Illustrates, With The Command And Instincts Of The Popular Memoirist ... This Is A Brave And Bracing Book. Booklist Christian Wiman'S Poems Often Spoke Of A Void, And Then They Stopped. In Ambition And Survival, Poetry Magazine'S Editor Rediscovers His Spirituality And His Voice.Chicago Suntimeschristian Wiman Is The Editor Of Poetry Magazine. His Poems And Essays Appear Regularly In The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Harpers, And The New York Times Book Review. He Is The Author Of Several Books Of Poetry, Including The Long Home (Isbn 9781556592690) And Hard Night (Isbn 9781556592201).
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