In 2005, on his thirty-ninth birthday, Wiman was diagnosed with Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia, an incurable form of blood cancer. He has also published a memoir, My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013) a collection of Osip Mandelstam translations, Stolen Air (Ecco, 2012) and a collection of essays, Ambition and Survival: On Becoming a Poet (Copper Canyon Press, 2007), and most recently Survival is a Style. Wiman has authored four books of poetry: Once in the West (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014), Every Riven Thing (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011), Hard Night (Copper Canyon Press, 2005), and The Long Home (Story Line Press, 1998). Born on August 31, 1966, in West Texas, poet, editor, and essayist Christian Wiman earned his BA from Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, in 1988.
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