About The World Next to This One by Robert McDowell:
Robert McDowell’s powerful narrative poems are among the best written over the last fifty years. His para-poems here extend the prose poem form with incisive, probing clarity and startling wit.
Robert McDowell is the award winning author, co-author, editor and translator of fifteen books including Poetry as Spiritual Practice (Free Press/Simon & Schuster) and The More We Get Together: The Sexual and Spiritual Language of Love (Poiesis Press). Robert was the co-founder and director of Storyline Press, creator of the Rural Readers Project, and has worked at the Institute of Noetic Sciences. He has led retreats, seminars, workshops conferences and festivals around the world.