Joy: 100 Poems By Christian Wiman
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Christian Wiman is an American poet and editor born in 1966 and raised in West Texas He graduated from Washington and Lee University and has taught at Northwestern University Stanford University Lynchburg College in Virginia and the Prague School of Economics In 2003 he became editor of the oldest American magazine of verse Poetry. Poetry joy In early 2020 I observed that I had bought a lot of poetry in 2019 and that was probably because I would need it That observation aged well but also this is the book of poetry I think I ve needed the most What a beautiful collection Every poem made my soul swell up with the goodness of it And the essay by Christian Wiman at the beginning of this collection is stunning This book is a friend one whose cover will become battered and well loved I already know 030022608X Joy One might blanch at the thought of poems on a subject that seems frivolous in the face of such suffering in the world That s understandable The author himself is no stranger to personal suffering That story is told in his memoir My Bright Abyss Meditation of a Modern Believer Here he takes up a bold exposition of joy through a selection of 100 poems collected from an array of poets Along the way he admits joy is that tired word used to peddle soap and salvation the word requires some rehabilitation What a beautiful work Wiman has done in rehabilitating joy as the perfect response to world of pain His opening essay is a sublime testimony to the deep transformative experience of joy as told in poetry He then unexpectedly presents a way forward with joy as a guide so that readers will not live frivolously but rather boldly and courageously These poems range across time and the poets across a wide expanse of experience Wiman demonstrates in this collection the truth of what the theologian J rgen Moltmann claimed Compassion is the other side of joy Perhaps poetry can return to the center of life as an essential spiritual practice for the living of these days One can find plenty of food for the soul in this marvelous book 030022608X joy its not just a gift in a sense its also a duty a task to fulfill courage 5 just finished reading joy 100 poems its such a great poetry compilation focusing on the theme joy and it is just so unique how each and every poem expresses joy differently there are of course a lot that i enjoyed reading but just a few that doesnt really speak to me the thing about joy is that its such a broad topic but i felt that its so necessary to talk about how do you define joy i guess everyone have their own definition of joy and this book captures that oh so beautifully i love how this book also introduces me to a lot of new poets that i have not heard some of the poems are also translated to english so its really cool to see a multicultural approach such a great exposure exploration through poetry if you would like to read this may you find joy after doing so 030022608X Wasn t super in a poetry mood for these but I still liked it Wiman sure knows how to curate a collection The project was posed by Miroslav Volf which is theologically dope 030022608X Christian Wiman a poet and professor at Yale University decided to explore what joy means for poets at this moment in history He set out to discover 100 poems and passages that reflect a modern understanding of joy in an attempt to answer such questions as What is joy When do we feel it How can we experience of it He writes in A Note on the Selections that Ezra Pound once assured us that poets are the antennae of the race and he is heartened in that sentiment as he believes this anthology bears it out that some unconscious effort at recovery is taking place So one hundred poems and several prose by poets selections on joy later what can I say I have learned about the subject Well I have learned that joy is ephemeral It is most often a fleeting state similar to sorrow than general contentment I have learned that we all seek it most often in communion with Spirit but very often in a climax too And did you know how many people experience a true sense of joy as they are urinating I have learned that most of us want joy but we re also afraid of finding too much of it We often feel that we want to hide our joy rather than share it Wipe that smile off our face before somebody else discovers that the guy behind the counter accidentally gave us a second scoop. Book joyland This is a thoughtful book one that would be best suited for a contemplative reader It is not a simple pick me up for that special person in your life who s a bit down on their luck This compilation is filled with some of our best modern poetry from around the world and it introduced me to three new to me poets Li Young Lee Donald Hall and Grace Paley All three of their independent collections are currently en route to me. Joy pottery I meant for this to be a background book as I was in the process of reading two other novels but to be honest the collection kept shouldering its way back to center stage I didn t want it to come to an end I guess you could almost say it made me joyful. Joyce meyer I pick the children up at the bottom of the mountain where the orange bus lets them off in the wind They run for the car like leaves blowing Not for keeps to be sure but at least for the time being the world has given them back again and whatever the world chooses to do later on it can never so much as lay a hand on the having beenness of this time The past is inviolate We are none of us safe but everything that has happened is safe In all the vast and empty reaches of the universe it can never be otherwise than that when the orange bus stopped with its red lights blinking these two children were on it Their noses were running One of them dropped a sweater I drove them home Frederick Buechner The Alphabet of Grace 030022608X
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One hundred of the most evocative modern poems on joy selected by an award winning contemporary poet Bursting with energy and surprising locutions Even the most familiar poets seem somehow new within the context of Joy David Skeel Wall Street Journal Wiman takes readers through the ostensible ordinariness of life and reveals the extraordinary Adrianna Smith The Atlantic Christian Wiman a poet known for his meditations on mortality has long been fascinated by joy and by its relative absence in modern literature Why is joy so resistant to language How has it become so suspect in our times Manipulated by advertisers religious leaders and politicians joy can seem disquieting even offensive How does one speak of joy amid such ubiquitous injustice and suffering in the world In this revelatory anthology Wiman takes readers on a profound and surprising journey through some of the most underexplored terrain in contemporary life Rather than define joy for readers he wants them to experience it Ranging from Emily Dickinson to Mahmoud Darwish and from Sylvia Plath to Wendell Berry he brings together diverse and provocative works as a kind of counter to the old modernist maxim light writes white no agony no art His rich selections awaken us to the essential role joy plays in human life Joy 100 Poems., Joy nonfiction If we deny our happiness resist our satisfactionwe lessen the importance of their deprivation: Joy Religion spirituality def If the locomotive of the Lord runs us downwe should give thanks that the end had magnitude.But we enjoy our lives because that s what God wants.We must admit there will be music despite everything