Description
Poetry. Art by Lorna Stevens. Winner of 2011 Foreword Book of the Year Award in Poetry and 2010 National Indie Excellence Awards in Poetry and Art; finalist for the 2011 Mass Book Award. "Rebecca Foust knows what goes on in 'the cricket-sung, grass-sweet dark,' and she isn't afraid to sing it. If there are moments of anxiety, intimations of mortality—if, as she writes, 'ours is the curse of the blighted touch'—they cannot, in the end, overwhelm the exuberant, muscular joy that emanates both from Foust's poems, and from Lorna Stevens's charming and evocative illustrations. Together, the words and pictures of God, Seed make a beguiling duet, a fine romance, a garden of earthly and, at times, unearthly delights"—Troy Jollimore. "A lovely, singing book, in both the art work and the language—intricate beauties informed by informed passion."—William Kittredge
Author Bio
Rebecca Foust won the 2008 Many Mountains Moving Press Poetry Book Prize for ALL THAT GORGEOUS PITILESS SONG. Her other books include GOD, SEED (Tebot Bach Press, 2010), environmental poetry with art by Lorna Stevens, and two chapbooks, Mom's Canoe and Dark Card (Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prizes, 2007 and 2008). Foust received her MFA from Warren Wilson College in 2010. Lorna Stevens received her MFA in Sculpture from Columbia University. She exhibits widely in galleries and public spaces. Her work has been reviewed or featured in The Boston Globe, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Marin Independent Journal and Artweek and has been acquired by the Brooklyn Museum, the New York Public Library and the di Rosa Preserve in Napa, California.
Author City: USA