Apr 5, 2021
Poet-philosopher James Matthew Wilson returns to the present to
learn poems from his new assortment, The Strangeness of the
Good, together with his “Quarantine Pocket book” collection, and to
talk about the decay and renewal of Catholic mental life.
Subjects mentioned embrace:
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The current narrowing of Catholic mental life in
conservative/conventional circles - How do you change into cultured, in an genuine and non-pretentious
approach, if you’re not collaborating in a tradition? -
His ultimate strategy to reciting poetry
- The poets we most should be studying now
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What must be accomplished to construct on the work in Catholic
aesthetics accomplished by figures like Maritain, Hildebrand, and
Gilson - What it is prefer to be an orthodox Catholic instructing at a merely
nominally Catholic college - Attempting to get by way of to school freshmen who suppose they
already know that there’s no worth within the Western patrimony,
there’s no reality, and life is meaningless
Watch this interview on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Ip02uvHlvck
Be aware: This interview was recorded earlier than James Matthew Wilson
introduced his appointment as founding director of a brand new MFA in
Inventive Writing, on the College of St. Thomas, Houston (in
collaboration with a number of previous Catholic Tradition Podcast visitors,
notably Joshua Hren of Wiseblood Books). Study concerning the
program right here:
https://www.stthom.edu/public/index.asp?AQ_Action=getPageByURL&AQ_URL=/Teachers/College-of-Arts-and-Sciences/Division-of-Liberal-Research/Graduate/Grasp-of-Superb-Arts-in-Inventive-Writing/Index.aqf
Hyperlinks
The Strangeness of the Good
https://www.amazon.com/Strangeness-Good-Together with-Quarantine-Pocket book/dp/1621386325/
All interviews with James Matthew Wilson
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?checklist=PL-tePYzIXOsQ2OgM0Bh-Nq1LUpYF2877q