{"product_id":"zero-at-the-bone-fifty-entries-against-despair","title":"Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair","description":"\u003cp\u003eDespair is not the opposite of faith — it may be its very threshold. In \u003ci\u003eZero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair\u003c\/i\u003e, Christian Wiman braids poetry, memoir, theology, and criticism into a genre-defying work of rare urgency and beauty, confronting the darkness that shadows even the most examined life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough fifty luminous, compressed pieces, Wiman unravels despair’s seductive pull — not to dismiss it, but to move through it. The voices of Wallace Stevens, Lucille Clifton, and Emily Dickinson join his own as he wrestles with faith, mortality, and the God who is both absent and inescapable. And at the center of it all are the people who anchor him: his wife, his young children with their disarming questions, and the West Texas landscape that shaped him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers drawn to the intersection of poetry, theology, and the inner life, \u003ci\u003eZero at the Bone\u003c\/i\u003e is both a reckoning and a revelation — for those who have stared into spiritual desolation, for readers who find truth at the edges of language, and for anyone who knows that faith and doubt are not opposites but companions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExplore more Christian Wiman: Begin with \u003ci\u003eMy Bright Abyss\u003c\/i\u003e for his meditation on faith and illness, or \u003ci\u003eHe Held Radical Light\u003c\/i\u003e for his reflections on poetry and the sacred.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat You’ll Discover\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFifty compressed, luminous entries on despair, faith, and what endures\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe poetry and prose of Stevens, Dickinson, Clifton, and others in dialogue with Wiman’s own\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSearing memoir woven with theology, criticism, and lyric insight\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA portrait of family, place, and the God who haunts even doubt\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA contemporary mystic’s honest reckoning with darkness and light\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristian Wiman is an award-winning poet, essayist, and editor, and the author of \u003ci\u003eMy Bright Abyss\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHe Held Radical Light\u003c\/i\u003e. He served as editor of \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e magazine for a decade and teaches at Yale Divinity School. One of the most searching voices on faith and literature writing today, Wiman brings to his work the precision of a poet and the candor of a man who has lived close to death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePerfect for:\u003c\/b\u003e Readers of contemplative and spiritual nonfiction, those navigating doubt, grief, or spiritual desolation, fans of \u003ci\u003eMy Bright Abyss\u003c\/i\u003e and Marilynne Robinson, poetry lovers drawn to theological questions, students of Christian mysticism and contemporary faith writing, those seeking language for the inexpressible, readers of Thomas Merton, Simone Weil, or Denise Levertov, and anyone who has wrestled with God in the dark.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQuality paperback edition | ISBN 9781250338419. Christian Wiman’s career-defining meditation on despair and faith — fifty entries that illuminate the darkness from within.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Christian Wiman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48106035347587,"sku":"BS-3QC-338419","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0695\/1583\/7571\/files\/9781250338419-HD.jpg?v=1788633758","url":"https:\/\/www.merceliarose.com\/products\/zero-at-the-bone-fifty-entries-against-despair","provider":"Mercelia Rose","version":"1.0","type":"link"}