Sweet Wolf

Robert McDowell’s poems over the last 35 years are widely recognized as major achievements in reviving narrative and consistently striving to cre-ate, as poet and critic Chad Abushanab writes in his Introduction, “the song in the story”. McDow-ell in poetry also embraces Emily Dickinson’s call to engage “Internal difference/Where the mean-ings, are”. McDowell’s poems appear widely in magazines, journals, newspapers, anthologies and earlier collections.