Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. "Edward Foster's poetry, always exacting and infinitely sweeping, comes to us like a whisper from behind our own ears. . . His poems suspend themselves just above language, connotative of some understanding—perhaps commo...

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Poetry. THE BEGINNING OF SORROWS imagines evil as formed by the self in its solitude. The book is rooted in definitions of evil as a result of, or as the essence of, self-love as well as an embodiment in words whose shadow seems to have no source be...

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Poetry. "Foster writes with great economy. His words feel chiseled and dovetailed into place. Like Zukofsky, Foster evinces the metilculous care of a seasoned cabinet maker. But it is out of this economy that he finds the richness that he is looking...

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Poetry. "Simultaneous erudite, puzzling, evasive, and revelatory...a fascinating examination of the self as nullity, as absence, as 'agent of its own instability.'"—Alsop Review"Foster's lines tease the reader into a more intimate communion with the...

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Poetry. A long gnostic poem, SOWING THE WIND interrogates modern notions of friendship, which, compromised by possession, need, and performance, becomes simply and essentially another expression of change."As a writer, critic, editor, and teacher, E...

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Poetry. With photographs by the author. Foster's poetry in WHAT HE OUGHT TO KNOW "reads in its entirety like a hymn to intellectual beauty. Its mood is almost always one of deep contemplation, a search for harmony among tangled relations. Each poem ...

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