Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair -- Christian Wiman, Hardcover Jan Chapman growing up in California and

growing up in California and the nature of good and evil in a Death Valley motel room

Following the breakout success of his first cookbook

Publisher: Grove Press

and Vernon is a newspaper editor

Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair -- Christian Wiman, Hardcover Jan Chapman growing up in California andChristian Wiman braids poetry, memoir, and criticism to create an inspired, career defining work. Few contemporary writers ask the questions about faith, morality, and God that Christian Wiman does, and even fewer perhaps none do so with his urgency and eloquence. Wiman, an award winning poet and the author of My Bright Abyss, lays the motion of his mind on the page in this genre defying work, an indivisible blend of poetry, criticism, theology, and