Sally Thomas

Sally Thomas is the author of a poetry collection, Motherland, a finalist for the 2018 Able Muse Book Award and forthcoming from Able Muse Press in May 2020. Her poems and other writing have appeared recently in Dappled Things, Forma, Local Culture, Measure Review, North American Anglican, Plough Quarterly, and Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry. She lives with her family in North Carolina.

August 13, 2020
Education & Culture, The Human Person

August 13, 2020
Book Reviews, Literature

A World of Strange Relations: Christian Wiman’s Survival Is a Style

By Sally Thomas

Christian Wiman’s new collection of poetry creates a world in which the human being is never one thing or the other—believer or unbeliever—but both at once. As the speaker in the book’s first poem, “Prologue,” puts it, “I need a space for unbelief to breathe.” Survival Is a Style creates that space.

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