WebNov 3, 2015 · A poem by Graham Foust. The sky has, is, one exit, one excuse, and if I’m dead now that I’m saying this, I can’t vouch for my transition from life WebBy Graham Foust In our arteries and eyes, a hundred lightbulbs throb like drugs. The furnace: a permanent mishap. And up in the dusk, there is lucid debris— a conduit, a wire mask, a swastika of corn. Boy- and/or girl-small, we'll find some horizon, an intricate faking in which to lose way. Here we are, not speaking or dead. Here we are or dead.

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WebGraham Foust's third book offers agile poems of dread and humor. Robert Creeley writes, "These poems move in close to luxuriant circles, round and round each particular syllable, neither hurrying nor dragging behind--just there. At times there seems an almost physical presence to them, a third dimension, which is substance." WebMay 19, 2013 · Anacreon was an ancient Greek poet famed for his drinking “hymns.”. The title of Foust’s latest collection is lifted directly from a song by an 18th-century London gentleman’s club of amateur musicians, for … siege survival gloria victis gameplay

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WebDec 1, 2004 · With the 50 poems in his debut collection, Graham Foust swiftly takes a seat alongside a handful of others (including William Carlos Williams, the form’s originator; Robert Creeley; and the late Larry Eigner) as a master of that most minimalist, no-place-to-hide form. Here, in its entirety, is Foust’s “Night Train”: “creased, the ... WebSep 1, 2012 · Graham Foust is author of Leave the Room to Itself, As in Every Deafness, and most recently Necessary Stranger. He is on the creative writing faculty at St. Mary's College of California. ... Poetry. Two Poems. The stones are endlessly weeping in the dark. Or is it the bird-chatter of rain. O darling, are you writing another poem about trees? No ... sieges through history