Books by Christian Wiman
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review 1: Novels must be either bad or good on the whole; no one reads a novel and says it was worth the read because it had two or three good chapters. Books of poetry, by contrast, are judged by the handful of transcendent poems plucked out from the midst of the merely good enough. Th...
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review 1: We were supposed to read this as part of a lenten book-club at church. I couldn't get through it. So much navel-gazing and self-examination. Pointless anecdotes combined with even more pointless navel-gazing. If you took worthless pre-adolescent poetry and turned it into prose, i...