Publisher's Synopsis
A collection of critical essays about poetry, Ambition and Survival does what great critical prose should do: reveals, asserts, explains, demands, and loves. These well-crafted and readable essays are vehement in their passion for poetry, revelatory in their assertions, strong and intelligent in their rhetorical arguments.;Christian Wiman has won numerous fellowships and awards, including a Pushcart Prize and a Gerald Freund Grant from the Whiting Foundation; for his first book of poetry, The Long Home, he won the 1998 Nicholas Roerich Prize. His poems and essays appear widely in anthologies and magazines, including Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Slate, Threepenny Review, and New Criterion. He is the editor of Poetry magazine and lives in Chicago.
