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James Matthew Wilson's "A Common Tongue"
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James Matthew Wilson's "A Common Tongue"

Wilson is a poet and critic of contemporary poetry, whose work appears regularly in such magazines and journals as First Things,  The Wall Street Journal​, The Hudson Review, Modern AgeThe New CriterionDappled ThingsMeasure, The Weekly StandardFront Porch RepublicThe Raintown ReviewNational Review, and The American Conservative.

He has published ten books, including six books and chapbooks of poetry. Among his volumes are: The Vision of the Soul: Truth, Goodness, and Beauty in the Western Tradition (CUA, 2017); the major critical study, The Fortunes of Poetry in an Age of Unmaking (Wiseblood, 2015); and a monograph, The Catholic Imagination in Modern American Poetry (both Wiseblood Books, 2014).  His most recent books are The Strangeness of the Good (Angelico, 2020) and the poetic sequence, The River of the Immaculate Conception (Wiseblood, 2019).

-Bio via JamesMatthewWilson.com


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