{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Trinity Forum Conversations","title":"Words Against Despair with Christian Wiman","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1921,"description":"Words Against Despair with Christian Wiman\n\nAs poet Christian Wiman explains on our podcast, despair is part of the human condition: “I deal with despair because…I don't know how not to, and it would be an evasion not to. And I think if you don't feel it, then you're not paying attention.”\n\nIn his new book, Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair, the acclaimed poet chases meaning through words, including memoir and poetry. And in this conversation he explains how he has found relief from despair in poetry, even and especially when poets grapple honestly with despair, “they speak of [despair] as a thing that can be spoken of.”\nWiman returned to Christian faith in part through a terminal cancer diagnosis–one that he has, to his astonishment, now lived with for over 18 years. His work explores themes of illness, love, faith, and the “almost spiritual joy” of encountering a deadly coral snake. We trust you will find in his poetry, and in this conversation with Trinity Forum’s guest host, Tom Wash, a great tonic against despair.\n\nThis podcast is an edited version of an online conversation recorded in April 2024. Watch the full video of the conversation here, and learn more about Christian Wiman.\n\nAuthors and books mentioned in the conversation:\nZero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair, by Christian Wiman\nMarilynne Robinson\nDanielle Chapman\nWilliam Bronk\nWilliam Wordsworth\nEvery Riven Thing, by Christian Wiman\nMy Bright Abyss: Meditations of a Modern Believer, by Christian Wiman\nPrayer, by Carol Ann Duffy\nThe Bible and Poetry, by Michael Edwards \nAugustine of Hippo\nBittersweet, by George Herbert\nSurprised by Joy, by C.S. Lewis\nRichard Wilbur\nJürgen Moltmann\nWhen the Time’s Toxins, by Christian Wiman\n\nRelated Trinity Forum Readings:\nAugustine’s Confessions\nDevotions by John Donne, paraphrased by Philip Yancey\nGod’s Grandeur: the Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins\nBulletins from Immortality, by Emily Dickinson\nWrestling with God, by Simone Weil\n\nRelated...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/LC6b2lFM_r_3xEJCzvD8r7UblHhgtgss5nBJ4X1mqD4/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzE3OTk3LzE2MTM1/MzUwNjEtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}