On Foot, in Flames

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Pub. Date: 2002-04-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Pittsburgh Pr
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Summary

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 by characters tethered to the world.

Author Biography

Robert McDowell is the author of two previous collections of poetry. Quict Money and The Diviners. The editor of Poctry After Modernism and Cowboy Poctry Matters, he is also the founding publisher and editor of Story Line Press

Table of Contents

Where and What You Are 3(4)
One
The Valley of the In-Betweens
7(1)
The New Life
8(1)
At Home with Dollface
9(1)
Chug's Promise
10(1)
The Fleshing Machine
11(1)
There Is
12(1)
Surprise
13(1)
My Bird, Your Face
14(1)
Lower Levels
15(1)
Levels of Intersection
16(1)
My Eastern Friend
17(2)
Sisters
19(5)
The Red Ball
24(3)
Two
The Pact
27(16)
Three
After
43(1)
October
44(1)
Prayer for the Harvest
45(1)
For Lysa, That She May Rise Early
46(1)
The Sheep That Feeds You
47(2)
Grateful
49(1)
Travelers
50(1)
Quiet Please
51(1)
Four Hundred Apples
52(1)
Paranoid
53(1)
Women and Men
54(1)
Forgive Us Our Trespasses
55(4)
Four
Red Foxes
59(14)
Five
The Islander
73(2)
A Prayer to You
75(1)
Emily's Courtship
76(2)
Elegy in August
78(1)
Daughter
79(1)
The Moon through the Trees
80(1)
The Discovery
81(1)
This Time of Year
82(1)
Far, and Near
83(1)
Dana, Her Eyes
84(1)
Prayers That Open Heaven
85(2)
Notes 87(2)
Acknowledgments 89

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