Joyful, sorrowful, and beautifully written, My Bright Abyss is destined to become a spiritual classic, useful not only to believers but to anyone whose experience of life and art seems at times to overbrim its boundaries. How do we answer this 'burn of being'? Wiman asks. What might it mean for our lives-and for our deaths-if we acknowledge the 'insistent, persistent ghost' that some of us call God?
