Graham Foust lives in Colorado and works at the University of Denver. His recent books include EMBARRASSMENTS (Flood Editions, 2021), NIGHTINGALELESSNESS (Flood Editions, 2018) and TIME DOWN TO MIND (Flood Editions, 2015).
Poetry. A MOUTH IN CALIFORNIA, Graham Foust's fourth book of poetry, uses the ironies and anxieties of contemporary life as a foil for mordant and sometimes violent humor. Through mangled aphorisms, misheard song lyrics, and off-key phrasing, Foust ...
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Poetry. For more than two decades Graham Foust has been sounding out the limits of common expression through precise lyricism, a tragicomic, almost slapstick absurdism, and syncopated guesses about what things might mean. EMBARRASSMENTS offers a syn...
Poetry. Winner of the 2003 Sawtooth Poetry Prize, judged by Joe Wenderoth, who comments, in his introduction: "There are many ways to hear 'it takes off the top of my head.' For me, the most important way to hear it is: it makes me suddenly and oddl...
Poetry. Graham Foust's third book offers agile poems of dread and humor. Robert Creeley writes: "These poems move in close to luxuriant circles, round and round each particular syllable, neither hurrying nor dragging behind—just there. At times ther...
Poetry. Through branching clauses of off-kilter syntax, Graham Foust makes poetry in NIGHTINGALELESSNESS from the common stuff of conversations, including the ones bouncing around in our heads. "If you think you've seen it all you've seen one thing....
Poetry. "No one gets dark (or gets darkness) like Graham Foust. He's the one who'll say: 'A touch horrific is the green with which / the ground will tear the winter' while everyone else is writing their paean to spring. His (and ours) is a world of ...
Poetry. "Graham Foust has written a gorgeously subversive field guide to the inner life, the poet's life—an anthem, if you will, to a borderless country, unbound from assumption. Brace yourself for the shock of recognition."—Dawn RaffelOn A Mouth in...