[New-Poetry] poet finds God

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_http://www.theamericanscholar.org/su07/abyss-wiman.html_ 
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Gazing into the Abyss
The sudden appearance of love
and the  galvanizing prospect of death
lead a young poet back to poetry and a
“hope  toward God”
 
By Christian Wiman 

Though I was raised in a very religious household, until about a year  ago I 
hadn’t been to church in any serious way in more than 20 years. It would  be 
inaccurate to say that I have been indifferent to God in all that time. If I  
look back on the things I have written in the past two decades, it’s clear to 
me  not only how thoroughly the forms and language of Christianity have shaped 
my  imagination, but also how deep and persistent my existential anxiety has 
been. I  don’t know whether this is all attributable to the century into which 
I was  born, some genetic glitch, or a late reverberation of the Fall of Man. 
What I do  know is that I have not been at ease in this world. 
 
Poetry, for me, has always been bound up with this  unease,




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