Collecting, in much revised form, his first two collections (Four Verse Letters and The Violent and the Fallen), and containing a new lyric sequence of twenty-one poems, La Rochefoucauld's Ghost, Some Permanent Things comes in an attractive edition from Wiseblood Books, designed by Dominic Heisdorf. ADVANCE PRAISE FOR SOME PERMANENT THINGS "This is James Matthew Wilson's first full-length book of poems, and a singularly powerful announcement it is...