My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer including Trouble Travelers

including Trouble Travelers

Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture

or slaying a dragon--give a child a stick and let imagination take over and the magic begin

a Siberian Forest cat who had been abandoned as a kitten

My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer including Trouble TravelersEight years ago, Christian Wiman, a well known poet and the editor of Poetry magazine, wrote a now famous essay about having faith in the face of death. My Bright Abyss, 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. Joyful, sorrowful, and beautifully