Letter from Poetry Magazine

Letter to the Editor

Originally Published: January 28, 2008

Dear Editor,

Ezra Pound’s explosive literary criticism, confident experimentation, and prophetic vision for poetry all won him fame in life, and earn him sustained historical attention now. His contemporaries recognized him as a “professor manqu

James Matthew Wilson is the author of the poetry collections The Strangeness of the Good (Angelico, 2020), winner of the Catholic Media Award for poetry in 2021, The Hanging God (Angelico, 2018), and Some Permanent Things (Wiseblood, 2018), among other books. His work appears regularly in a wide range of magazines and newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal, New Criterion, First Things, and ...

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