Boy on a Doorstep: New and Selected Poems - Softcover

Richard Foerster

Softcover

ISBN 10: 173290121X ISBN 13: 9781732901216

Publisher: Tiger Bark Press, 2019

Synopsis

In this transcendent new collection, memory is the fulcrum of clear-eyed, beautiful, and life affirming reflection. Richard Foerster s Boy on a Doorstep: New and Selected Poems 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 poets 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 of The Carnival of Affection

About this title

About the Author:

Richard Foerster was born in the Bronx, New York, in 1949, the son of German immigrants. His numerous honors include the Discovery-The Nation Award, Poetry magazine s Bess Hokin Prize, a Maine Arts Commission Fellowship, the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship, and two National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowships as well as two Maine Literary Awards for Poetry. He lives in a former church in Eliot, Maine, with his partner, the artist Douglas Taylor.

About this edition

• Publisher: Tiger Bark Press
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 173290121X
• ISBN 13: 9781732901216
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 264