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The Mystery Still Drives Us is the second collection of ghazals by J. K. McDowell. The ghazal is a poetic form of possibility traced back to ancient Persia. The poems and even their stanzas are independent beacons of image, feeling and reflection. Subject and voice leap and flicker from stanza to stanza. Within the confines of six stanzas, McDowell exposes in each poem, threads of personal struggle and creative transcendence. Often at the end ...

McDowell often ends his poems with a challenge to "Jim, " a question usually asking him to make sense of his life. Yet as we feel our way through the earlier stanzas, living within their diaphanous walls, we overhear this final question as if it were directed at us. One of the joys of reading McDowell's poetry is precisely this-that his questions urge us to make deeper sense of our own lives. You will discover, along with him, the almost seaml...