Poet Christian Wiman on Love, Faith, and Cancer - Bill Moyers
The Harvard Divinity Bulletin (Winter / Spring 2012) features a wonderful essay by Christian Wiman:
as well as Two Poems:
Every Riven Thing
This Mind of Dying
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His books are available on Amazon:
Ambition and Survival: Becoming a Poet
Update on 2012-03-08 16:58 by Therese Flanagan
I've been drawn back to this video, again and again, to hear Christian read his untitled poem...the first line is so powerful, as is the whole of it:
Loves last urgency is earth
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His reading...the poem itself...the context, brings me to tears. The poem is lovely, and true.