News at Eleven: "More and more what I want is some

complete saturation of the actual, to feel some part of the real world wanting me to make it into words," he writes in "Fugitive Pieces II." That calling, at once religious, ethical, and aesthetic, is one that only a genuine poet can hear--and very few poets can explain it as compellingly as Mr. [Christian] Wiman does.

from The New York Sun: The Poet's Ambition

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