James Matthew Wilson

Mercy Wears a Red Dress

Arts & Literature

“In the past, Craig's poems have taken us through Midwestern bus stations, Browns' games, cab driving in Denver. These new ones explore God's challenge to live out our vocation in the domestic church. Mercy Wears a Red Dress brings a fresh, frank, and familiar voice to the life of Christian pilgrimage that makes it his most appealing and accomplished work to date. These are poems that help us see who we really are.”

Pilgrimages

Arts & Literature

“The poetry of Andrew Calis is sacramental in the truest sense: it radiates gold from a heart of invisible mystery. With all the intensity of Hopkins, he layers light on light in hopes of helping us see.”

The Gaze of Jesus

Fiction

“Translator Anthony Esolen is one of the great moral and literary voices of our generation. He has brought us a wonderful edition of Dante's Divine Comedy, and now he brings us Riccardo Bacchelli's modern classic, The Gaze of Jesus, a great gift to contemporary readers.”

The Soul Is a Stranger in This World

Arts & Literature

“Micah Mattix is one of a handful of contemporary writers who have restored the art of literary criticism to its proper scope and style so that once again it serves to illuminate the meaning of works of art, to suggest their connection to the full breadth of knowledge and human experience, and to keep in mind—always—the one question every reader wants to know: is this poem any good? Bringing together essays on myriad subjects, Mattix's new book is a reliable guide to both the great poets now among us and to those eccentric figures who may be less appealing to the lay reader but whose work nonetheless has something substantial to teach us. . . . The result is a critic of foremost authority who is helping to reclaim for poetry that public, intellectual, and spiritual role it ought always to play in a decent civilization.”

To Heaven's Rim

Arts & Literature

“To risk hyperbole, there has never been a book like To Heaven’s Rim ​​​before. Horniachek’s anthology shows us how continuous are the Christian theological and spiritual traditions with the poetic one, and that the most profound beauty will be found in ancient texts of which few contemporary Christians will have heard before.”