Poet and memoirist Christian Wiman was 39 when he was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. Now 57, he's endured many rounds of chemo, a bone marrow transplant and several experimental therapies ...

On the day that the poet Christian Wiman turned thirty-nine, he missed a phone call from his doctor. For months, he’d been playing with a bump above his collarbone, one so small he sometimes ...

In “My Bright Abyss” (2013), his memoir about faith and living with a rare form of blood cancer, the poet and essayist Christian Wiman quotes from William Empson: “Imagine, then, by miracle ...

In “Zero at the Bone,” the poet discusses love, lament, and living toward a ‘happy ending.’ I remember where I was when I first read Christian Wiman. I was an associate at a law firm in ...

In “Zero at the Bone,” Christian Wiman offers a welcome tonic: poetic and philosophical reminders of how to get through troubling times. By Alexandra Jacobs ZERO AT THE BONE: Fifty Entries ...

When poet Christian Wiman was diagnosed with cancer at age 39, his prognosis was grim. He had a rare and incurable form of lymphoma and was given five years to live. Today, 19 years later, his cancer ...

Nearly two decades ago, the poet Christian Wiman was diagnosed with a rare form of lymphoma. Doctors told Wiman, who was 39 at the time, that he likely had five years to live. In the ensuing 19 years, ...

A dozen years ago, Christian Wiman withdrew an essay before it could be published in a magazine. It concerned the writer’s family in West Texas, where his father and sister suffered from severe ...

For years the Yale theologian and poet Christian Wiman has grappled with a cancer diagnosis and a difficult prognosis, white-knuckling through a rollercoaster of chemotherapy and pneumonias ...

Poet and translator Wiman (My Bright Abyss) weaves together poetry, essay, and memoir in this dazzling, multivocal examination of and refusal to accept existential despair. It’s a subject with ...