Once in the West
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One of The New York Times' 10 Favorite Poetry Books of 2014
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
Winner of the 2015 Philosophical Society of Texas Award of Merit in Poetry
A searing new collection from one of our country's most important poets
Memories mercies
mostly aren't
but there were
I swear
days
veined with grace
—from "Memory's Mercies"
Once in the West, Christian Wiman's fourth collection, is as intense and intimate as poetry gets—from the "suffering of primal silence" that it plumbs t...


