Shadow of the Owl by Matthew Sweeney
PBS Wild Card Winter 2020
Carrie Etter laced with breathtaking imagery

laced with breathtaking imagery

but where the scale is always the human body

Ramona Herdman

the poems are framed between the contrary pulls of attachment and flight

Shadow of the Owl by Matthew Sweeney <br><b>PBS Wild Card Winter 2020</b><br> Carrie Etter laced with breathtaking imageryShadow of the Owl is Matthew Sweeney's final collection, bringing together the poems he wrote during a year of debilitating illness. He died from Motor Neuron Disease in 2018 shortly after publishing My Life as a Painter, written before he became ill, but which was like all his previous collections preparation for this final work. In a sequence of dark fables, a hapless figure is hounded by a procession of invisible enemies who want him dead. These