Hard Night

From the personal lyrics of solitude and loss to “Being Serious,” the long poem that concludes Hard Night, Christian Wiman’s poems examine emotions clearly, without sentimentality. A profound reverence for form and passion for poetry are evident in these artfully shaped poems that contain and find meaning in the unwieldy and inexplicable. As he did in his role as editor of Poetry, Wiman makes intellectually and emotionally engaged writing accessible to an expanding audience of readers.