James Matthew Wilson's "A Common Tongue"




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Summary: <p>Wilson is a poet and critic of contemporary poetry, whose work appears regularly in such magazines and journals as <em>First Things</em>,  <em>The Wall Street Journal</em>​, <em>The Hudson Review, Modern Age</em>, <em>The New Criterion</em>, <a href="http://dappledthings.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Dappled Things</em></a>, <a href="http://www.measurepress.com/measure/index.php/the-journal/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Measure</em>,</a> <em>The Weekly Standard</em>, <em>Front Porch Republic</em>, <a href="http://www.theraintownreview.com/web-exclusive-essays/the-remarkable-unremarkable-meter-of-timothy-steele" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>The Raintown Review</em></a>, <em>National Review</em>, and <a href="http://www.theamericanconservative.com/author/james-matthew-wilson/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>The American Conservative</em></a>.</p><br><p>He has published ten books, including six books and chapbooks of poetry. Among his volumes are: <em>The Vision of the Soul: Truth, Goodness, and Beauty in the Western Tradition </em>(CUA, 2017); the major critical study, <em>The Fortunes of Poetry in an Age of Unmaking </em>(Wiseblood, 2015); and a monograph, <em>The Catholic Imagination in Modern American Poetry </em>(both <a href="http://www.wisebloodbooks.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Wiseblood Books</a>, 2014).  His most recent books are <em>The Strangeness of the Good </em>(Angelico, 2020) and the poetic sequence, <em>The River of the Immaculate Conception</em> (Wiseblood, 2019).</p><br><p><em>-Bio via JamesMatthewWilson.com </em></p><br><hr><p style="color:grey;font-size:0.75em;"> See <a style="color:grey;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>