Shadow of the Owl by Matthew Sweeney
PBS Wild Card Winter 2020
Carrie Etter and includes an introduction by

and includes an introduction by Slovenian poet and critic Iztok Osojnik and a translators afterword by Raymond Miller

Ramona Herdman

At every significant turning point we find them

Most famous are the sequence of fragments in which the fox recounts his revenge upon the eagle (widely regarded as code for Lycambes) who has betrayed their friendship by eating the vixen’s cubs

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 and includes an introduction byShadow 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