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Author: Edward Foster

Edward Foster is the author or editor of more than forty volumes, including fourteen books of poetry and four in translation. His most recent work includes A LOOKING- GLASS FOR TRAYTORS (March Hawk Press, 2020), SOWING THE WIND (Marsh Hawk Press, 2016), and DIRE STRAITS (Marsh Hawk Press, 2012). He is the founding editor of Talisman, journal and books.

A Looking-Glass for Traytors
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A Looking-Glass for Traytors

Marsh Hawk Press

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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The Beginning of Sorrows
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The Beginning of Sorrows

Marsh Hawk Press

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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Dire Straits
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Dire Straits

Marsh Hawk Press

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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Mahrem: Things Men Should Do For Men. A Suite for O
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Mahrem: Things Men Should Do For Men. A Suite for O

Marsh Hawk Press

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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Sowing the Wind: A Requiem in the Modern World
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Sowing the Wind: A Requiem in the Modern World

Marsh Hawk Press

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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What He Ought to Know: New And Selected Poems
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What He Ought to Know: New And Selected Poems

Marsh Hawk Press

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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