My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer author of Not Nothing and

author of Not Nothing and After Life

full journey into the heart and heartache of an often overlooked American Upper Midwest by a "formidably gifted" (Chicago Tribune) master storyteller

he reckons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes have abandoned rural people in favor of cities

and the Antichrist

My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer author of Not Nothing andEight 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