Description
Poetry. "In this transcendent new collection, memory is the fulcrum of clear-eyed, beautiful, and life-affirming reflection. Richard Foerster's BOY ON A DOORSTEP brings together some of his finest work of seven previous volumes, plus a generous gathering of new visions. It is a map of a man's life and the events that formed it, yet also that of the boy who, with memory as an engine of emotional growth, is transformed by those very stirrings. His subjects refract family, lovers, nature, joy, grief, history—all with the mirrored self—acceptance gained by years, made possible by allowing the past to transform us, rather than deter us. These are poems of deep maturity, superb craft, and indelible imagery; a perfect anthology of this poet's art, which moves one to recognize the very truths captured by concentrated observation, visceral intellect, and resolute acceptance of lessons learned."—Philip F. Clark
Author Bio
Richard Foerster was born in the Bronx, New York, in 1949, the son of German immigrants. He holds degrees in English literature from Fordham College and the University of Virginia. His numerous honors include the Discovery (The Nation Award), Poetry magazine's Bess Hokin Prize, a Maine Arts Commission Fellowship, the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship, and two National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowships-as well as two Maine Literary Awards for Poetry. Since the late 1970s, his work has appeared widely in magazines and anthologies, including The Best American Poetry, Kenyon Review, TriQuarterly, The Gettysburg Review, Shenandoah, The Southern Review, and Poetry. He has worked as a lexicographer, educational writer, typesetter, teacher, and editor of the literary magazines Chelsea and Chautauqua Literary Journal. He lives in a former church in Eliot, Maine, with his partner, the artist Douglas Taylor.
Author City: ELIOT, ME USA