Description
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 beyond language itself. Failure or refusal to live as more than the self, its perceptions, and its desires appears to have consequences among, paradoxically, the most exquisite pleasures as well as the fountains of deepest sorrow.
"As a writer, critic, editor, and teacher, Ed Foster is inveterately Apollonian: lucid, balanced, well organized."—American Book Review
Author Bio
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.
Author City: GREENFIELD, MA USA