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On foot, in flames / Robert McDowell.

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Working in the narrative tradition of Robinson, Frost, and Jeffers, Robert McDowell is a leading figure in the expansive poetry movement. His narrative poems deliver the depth and complexity of a novel with a cinematic swiftness. They are accessible, graceful, spiritual without pretension, inhabited...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Main Author: McDowell, Robert, 1953-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh, Pa. : London : University of Pittsburgh Press ; Eurospan (distributor), 2002.
Series:Pitt poetry series.
Subjects:
Narrative poetry, American.
Local author.
Table of Contents:
  • Where and What You Are
  • The Valley of the In-Betweens
  • The New Life
  • At Home with Dollface
  • Chug's Promise
  • The Fleshing Machine
  • There Is
  • Surprise
  • My Bird, Your Face
  • Lower Levels
  • Levels of Intersection
  • My Eastern Friend
  • Sisters
  • The Red Ball
  • The Pact
  • After
  • October
  • Prayer for the Harvest
  • For Lysa, That She May Rise Early
  • The Sheep That Feeds You
  • Grateful
  • Travelers
  • Quiet, Please
  • Four Hundred Apples
  • Paranoid
  • Women and Men
  • Forgive Us Our Trespasses
  • Red Foxes
  • The Islander
  • A Prayer to You
  • Emily's Courtship
  • Elegy in August
  • Daughter
  • The Moon through the Trees
  • The Discovery
  • This Time of Year
  • Far, and Near
  • Dana, Her Eys
  • Prayers That Open Heaven.

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