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Ambition and Survival - Becoming a Poet
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That calling, at once religious, ethical, and aesthetic, is one that only a genuine poet can hearΓÇöand very few poets can explain it as compellingly as Mr. Wiman does. That gift is what makes Ambition and Survival, not just one of the best books of poetry criticism in a generation, but a spiritual memoir of the first order."
ΓÇöNew York Sun

"This weighty first prose collection should inspire wide attention, partly because of Wiman's current job, partly because of his astute insights and partly because he mixes poetry criticism with sometimes shocking memoir ... The collection's greatest strength comes in general ruminations on the writing, reading and judging poetry." ΓÇöPublishers Weekly

"[Wiman is] a terrific personal essayist, as this new collection illustrates, with the command and instincts of the popular memoirist ... This is a brave and bracing book." ΓÇöBooklist

ΓÇ£Blazing high styleΓÇ¥ is how The New York Times describes the prose of Christian Wiman, the young editor transforming Poetry, the countryΓÇÖs oldest literary magazine.