The Hanging God - Couverture souple

Wilson, James Matthew

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1621384020 ISBN 13 : 9781621384021

Editeur : Angelico Press, 2018

Synopsis

“In The Hanging God, James Matthew Wilson mines the landscape of contemporary American life for images to reflect its moral ravages. Raw in their affective power, Wilson’s narratives avoid ambiguity in matters of faith without sacrificing complexity of feeling, compassion, and self-examination. Strippers, divorcees, corporate accountants move among dumpsters, barrooms, bedfellows, beer bottles, and Excel spreadsheets, while the poet examines our confused postmodern responses to these tragicomic figures: would I ‘weep or smile’ at their worldly losses? Yet the narrator of these poems calls a sin a ‘sin’ and does not allow his readers to make excuses for our moral weaknesses.”—MARY ANN B. MILLER, founding editor of Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry

“To read The Hanging God is to experience the ordinary world transformed by sly artfulness into a place filled with mystery and meaning. James Matthew Wilson is a poet who works like a priest, rendering the elements of quotidian life—its sublime gifts and severe mercies alike—into bearers of sacramental grace. Wilson sees deeper than we do; and in these poems, with lucidity both stark and humane, he reveals profundity hidden beneath everydayness.”—ROD DREHER, author of The Benedict Option and How Dante Can Save Your Life

“Like some delicious reduction of balsamic or wine, Wilson’s poems are novels distilled into verse. They marry senses with narrative, scandals with sacraments, and, always, form with meaning. Because Wilson gives voice to the idols of our culture, the poems are Walker Percy-esque, occasionally moaning in despair. Yet, these sounds are echoed by hope offered from allusions to our neglected, often ancient, past. Both beautiful and haunting, this collection deserves to be savored.”—JESSICA HOOTEN WILSON, author of Reading Walker Percy’s Novels

“How good to be reading a grown-up poet! No virtue-signaling in this poetry, though it’s full of the harshest, most violent and liberating moral wisdom. None of the croon of fashionable free verse, but instead, complex fractured metrical forms and crazy rhymes that distort language until it squirts out its real meaning. No pandering to the niceness of the poetic audience, but prophetic bluntness that breaks our expectations and makes them gash gold vermilion.”—FREDERICK TURNER, author of Apocalypse: An Epic Poem

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

James Matthew Wilson is the author of seven previous books, including The Vision of the Soul: Truth, Goodness, and Beauty in the Western Tradition (Catholic University of America Press, 2017), The Fortunes of Poetry in an Age of Unmaking (Wiseblood, 2015), Some Permanent Things (Wiseblood, 2014), The Catholic Imagination in Modern American Poetry (Wiseblood, 2014), The Violent and the Fallen (Finishing Line Press, 2013), Timothy Steele: A Critical Introduction(Story Line Press, 2012), and Four Verse Letters (Steubenville, 2010). The 2017 winner of the Hiett Prize from the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, he is Associate Professor of Humanities and Augustinian Traditions at Villanova University, and Poetry Editor of Modern Age magazine. He lives in the village of Berwyn, Pennsylvania, with his wife and children.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Angelico Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1621384020
• ISBN 13: 9781621384021
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 106
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