Death of Mrs. Owl

Lowenstein Tom

Tom Lowenstein's first full-length book of poems shows his development from meditative and hermetic earlier poems, through formalism to a mode of controlled ironic wildness, in which he explores in concrete detail the fantasies that emerge from metaphor and parodic speech. Unnervingly precise comedy is only one aspect of his gift; in the narrative poems which end the book he deals excitingly with ethnology and myth.

About the Author

Tom Lowenstein, born in 1941, studied at Cambridge University. He taught English and Creative Writing at Northwestern University, worked for the Alaska State Museum and spent a year in an Alaskan Eskimo village, recording and translating its legends and histories. His other collections are "Filibustering in Samsara" (1987), "Ancient Land: Sacred Whale" (1993), "Ancestors and Species: New and Selected Ethnographic Poetry" (2005) and "Conversation with Murasaki" (2009).

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