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To Eat the Awful While You Starve Your Awe Christian Wiman (bio) To eat the awful while you starve your awe, to weasel misery like a suck of egg, to be ebullience’s prick and leak, a character pinched to characteristic, hell-relisher, persimmon-sipper, sad Tom, sane Tom, all day licking the cicatrix where your Tomhood lay. [End Page 27] Christian Wiman CHRISTIAN WIMAN is the author, editor, or translator of ten books, including Hammer is the Prayer: Selected Poems (FSG, 2016), My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer (FSG, 2013), and Stolen Air: Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam (HarperCollins/Ecco, 2012). Copyright © 2017 Christian Wiman
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