On Foot, in Flames

By Robert McDowell

Working in the narrative tradtion of Robinson, Frost and Jeffers, McDowell is part of the expansive peotry movement. His narrative poems deliver the depth and complexity of a novel with a cinematic swiftness. They are spiritual without pretensions, inhabited by characters tethered to the world.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822957833
• ISBN13: 9780822957836
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 89 Pages
• Weight: 0.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.1" x 8.5"

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Lyrics from a master of narrative poetry

Robert McDowell, whose Quiet Money and The Diviners showed him to be a master of narrative poetry, reveals his lyric gift in this new, long-awaited collection.