{"title":"J K Mcdowell","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"mystery-still-drives-us-book-j-k-mcdowell-9781953340108","title":"The Mystery Still Drives Us","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Mystery Still Drives Us\u003c\/em\u003e is a prismatic, mysterious read that will thoroughly envelop you and usher you along on a poetic journey that will leave an undeniable, indelible mark. These billowing, prayerful reflections of longing will open you to the mystery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-Frank LaRue Owen, author of award-winning \u003cem\u003eThe School of Soft-Attention\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne part beautifully illuminated love story, one part elongated human heartbreak, and a third part warning signs for a broken and beautiful world. McDowell photographs the curves of the earth and the sharpness of desire with the deep clarity only a poet can reveal, while somehow offering up a balm for all of us, poet and pedestrian alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-Thomas Qualls, author of the award-winning novel \u003cem\u003eThe Painted Oxen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is poetry for the soul and for the body, sensuous and textured-alive. Its rhythms and themes are familiar, but still fresh, at once quotidian and accessible, but still mysterious. You'll want to sit with \u003cem\u003eThe Mystery Still Drives Us\u003c\/em\u003e under a tree, carry it around with you and read and re-read; for it offers, in some small way, in its subtle and slow depth, an antidote to the superficiality and busy-ness of our world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-Theodore Richards, award-winning author of \u003cem\u003eCosmosophia\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49534918361361,"sku":"GOR013478403","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1953340105.jpg?v=1751157278"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-j-k-mcdowell.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}