The Diviners: A Book Length Poem

By Robert McDowell

Book Overview

A book-length poem that brilliantly reinvents narrative poetry, The Diviners is a single poem divided into five chapters, each a different decade. McDowell relates the most crucial developments in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1885266103
• ISBN13: 9781885266101
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Story Line Press
• Length: 90 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.5" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Great Narrative Poem

The Diviners is McDowell's book length poem about a family as it falls apart through five decades. It's a poignant story told in iambic pentameter, and is a prime example of the comeback the narrative poem has been making (as is Dave Mason's "The Country I Remember"). The first chapter, "The Fifties", is truly a great piece of work, and appeared in a slightly different form in the Best American Poetry 1989.