Ambition and Survival: Becoming a Poet by Christian Wiman

Ambition and Survival: Becoming a Poet

Christian Wiman

248 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction essays memoir poetry reflective slow-paced
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“Blazing high style” is how The New York Times describes the prose of Christian Wiman, the young editor who transformed Poetry, the country’s oldest literary magazine.Ambition and Survival is a collection of stirring personal essays and critical p...

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