Facing Death, A Poet Searches For Meaning

Published: Dec. 13, 2023, 7:28 p.m.

Poet and memoirist Christian Wiman has had a rare form of cancer for 18 years. "When death hangs over you for a while, you start to forget about it," he says. Wiman's new book is Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair.

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