Kimberly Johnson

Learning to Jump

Arts & Literature

“Under his poet’s gaze, the small and common things of the world ascend into Sean McDowell’s nearly reverent attention to be simultaneously affirmed as needful in themselves and expanded into resonances beyond themselves. As McDowell urges his reader, over and again in a variety of ways, to ‘Look closely,’ so he enlists us in the extraordinary work of being enthralled by the ordinary.”