{"product_id":"hammer-is-the-prayer-selected-poems-9780374537319","title":"Hammer Is the Prayer: Selected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA visionary selection from one of America's foremost poets\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the most distinctive voices in contemporary American poetry, Christian Wiman has forged a singular style that fuses a vivid and propulsive music with clear-eyed realism, wry humor, and visionary lament. In his \"daring and urgent\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e) memoir, \u003ci\u003eMy Bright Abyss\u003c\/i\u003e, he asks, \"What is poetry's role when the world is burning?\" \u003ci\u003eHammer Is the Prayer: Selected Poems \u003c\/i\u003emight be read as an answer to that question.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e From the taut forms of his first book to the darker, more jagged fluencies of his second, into the bold and pathbreaking poems of his last two collections, \u003ci\u003eHammer Is the Prayer \u003c\/i\u003ebears the reckless, restless interrogations and the slashing lyric intensity that distinguish Wiman's verse. But it also reveals the dramatic and narrative abilities for which he has been widely praised--the junkyard man in \"Five Houses Down\" with his \"wonder-cluttered porch\" and \"the eyesore opulence \/ of his five partial cars,\" or the tragicomic character in \"Being Serious\" who suffers \"the world's idiocy \/ like a saint its pains.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHammer Is the Prayer\u003c\/i\u003e brings together three decades of Wiman's acclaimed poetry. Selected by the author, these poems reveal the singular music and metaphysical urgency that have attracted so many readers to his work and firmly assert his place as one of the most essential poets of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/14\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374537319\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.60d","brand":"Christian Wiman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36636672589980,"sku":"9780374537319","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_a86b7bd9-3ee8-4844-9391-372cb9a98762.jpg?v=1603842603","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/hammer-is-the-prayer-selected-poems-9780374537319","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}