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"""It was a delight to be absorbed by every one of these stunning poems. Each one is a work of exquisite depth, observation, complexity, and form. In each one, the poet touches on the biggest questions that face humanity, and gazes deep and long enough at his subject to thrill the reader with his sense of truth and meaning. Reading this book is an emotional and intellectual experience.""--Sally Read ""It's been said that a poet is a man who, in a lifetime, manages to be struck by lightning five or six times. James Matthew Wilson has managed that in this one book. These poems are formally beautiful, humanly rich, intellectually strong, surprising and varied--even wise. All things we need just now in great abundance.""--Robert Royal ""James Matthew Wilson is a treasure. Without making demands, his sublime poetry beckons us softly to remember who we are: children of God in a miraculous world. In a harried age of forever 'becoming, ' Wilson's words invite us to rest awhile in the healing moments of simply 'being.' That is quite a balm for a reeling, uncertain world.""--Tod Worner ""James Matthew Wilson is the most conspicuously talented young poet-critic in American Catholic letters.""--Dana Gioia ""Of our living poets--to my mind--no greater one exists than James Matthew Wilson.""--Bradley J. Birzer ""'The darkness' is coming for us--the darkness of sin, of loss and of forgetfulness, of who we are and who God is. And yet, just when you want to shut the darkness out, James Matthew Wilson invites us to crack open our hearts 'so truth may not die in the ear / But, suitably disguised, appear.' Just when you think you know something--a lilac, a garden, the Church, a tow-truck driver--Wilson entices us to look closer. Within every created thing, person, or place dwells a mystery to behold, a surprise for us if we can stay attentive and humble. In Saint Thomas and the Forbidden Birds, Wilson offers us a holy resistance to the darkness coming--to swap our narrow and limited vision for eyes infused with grace.""--Colleen Hutt"

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James Matthew Wilson is the Cullen Foundation Chair in English Literature and the founding director of the MFA in Creative Writing program at the University of Saint Thomas. The author of thirteen previous books, his collection of poems The Strangeness of the Good (2020) won the Catholic Media Awards prize for poetry. The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture awarded him the Hiett Prize in 2017; Memoria College gave him the Parnassus Prize in 2022; and the Conference on Christianity and Literature twice gave him the Lionel Basney Award. He serves as Poet-in-Residence of the Benedict XVI Institute, Editor of Colosseum Books, and Poetry Editor of Modern Age magazine. He lives with his wife and five children in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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