Sweet Wolf: Selected & New Poems

by Robert McDowell

Overview

Robert McDowell's poems over the last 35 years are widely recognized as major achievements in reviving narrative and consistently striving to create, as poet and critic Chad Abushanab writes in his Introduction, "the song in the story". McDowell in poetry also embraces Emily Dickinson's call to engage "Internal difference/Where the meanings, are". McDowell's poems appear widely in magazines, journals, newspapers, anthologies and earlier collections.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781950475131
Publisher:	Homestead Lighthouse Press
Publication date:	12/30/2020
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.67(d)

Editorial Reviews

"...filled with loneliness, with knowledge that 'the world dismantles us'...This is a religious book in the best sense, fusing matter and spirit, ultimately, achingly human." -Kim Addonizio

"Following a trajectory from apocalypse to redemption, Story Line Press Founder Robert McDowell's third collection invites readers to "go into the writing where anything/Can happen..." -Publishers Weekly

"I am caught up again and again in McDowell's strong narrative line. Whether he's reshaping an old myth or detailing an actual event, this poet is a storyteller at the top of his form." -Maxine Kumin, winner of the Pulitzer Prize

"Robert McDowell's powerful narrative poems are among the best written in the last fifty years." -Ai, winner of the National Book Award

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