As unflinching as it is graceful, Gary L. McDowell's second collection, Weeping at a Stranger's Funeral, intones an elegy and prayer for all of us. Stippled by loam and lit by awe, these elliptical lyrics wander and leap, tenderly tracing a map of human limitations and luminosities. McDowell's charged fragments and micro-narratives spiral in constellation inwardly and outwardly at the same time, toward discovery and return, the primal and paradoxical motion of being. Reading this book reminds me of what I love about poetry -Chad Sweeney Weeping at a Stranger's Funeral has done the...
As unflinching as it is graceful, Gary L. McDowell's second collection, Weeping at a Stranger's Funeral, intones an elegy and prayer for all of us. St...
