Home: 100 Poems (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780300253450)

Evocative poems and prose fragments about home, selected by one of the most celebrated poets of our time

"This is a book of longing, yes, and also spiritual discernment, political awareness, historical memory, and deep intimacy."--Carolyn Forché

In this poignant collection, Christian Wiman draws together one hundred evocative poems and prose fragments about home, exploring home's deep theological, literary, philosophical, historical, political, and social dimensions. Wiman calls home "a house, a country, a language, a love, a longing, a grief, a god." It's "a word that disperses into more definitions than one book can contain."

The tensions between diffusion and concentration, roaming and rootedness, precarity and security are everywhere in this book, often in the same poem. Ranging from early modernism to the current moment, and from southern Africa to the Arctic Circle, the selections are as diverse as the poets included. Collectively they envision an imaginative home for even the most homeless of modern readers. Completed entirely during quarantine, amid the miseries of separation and isolation, the collection offers a powerful vision of home as both a place and a way.

Author: Christian Wiman
ISBN-10: 0300253451
ISBN-13: 9780300253450
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/03/2021
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 8.58h x 5.35w x 1.02d