{"title":"Richard Foerster","description":"\u003cp\u003eRichard Foerster is the author of six collections of poetry, three from BOA Editions: \u003cem\u003eTrillium \u003c\/em\u003e(1998); \u003cem\u003eDouble Going \u003c\/em\u003e(2002), named a notable book by the National Book Critics Circle; and \u003cem\u003eThe Burning of Troy \u003c\/em\u003e(2006), winner of the Poetry Category for the 2007 Maine Literary Awards. His other numerous awards include the Discovery\/The Nation Award, the Bess Hokin Prize from \u003cem\u003ePoetry\u003c\/em\u003e Magazine, and residency fellowships from Yaddo and the National Endowment for the Arts. Foerster also typesets all of BOA’s beautiful books.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"double-going","title":"Double Going","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eDouble Going\u003c\/em\u003e, Richard Foerster's tightly chiseled poems are rife with a doubling of images and motifs that reappear like musical phrases sounding in different contexts. The title speaks to the dual nature of love and anger that a son feels toward his father. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eDouble Going\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"With the formal virtuosity that has always marked his work, Richard Foerster turns his gaze to the conundrum of childhood trauma, the stain of the past, our instinct sometimes to erase it, sometimes to brandish it—a tattoo. It is the doubleness of desire itself, finally—bodily and psychological—in which a thing can be 'luminous: because of what is ruined.' \u003cem\u003eDouble Going\u003c\/em\u003e casts a light as slant with wisdom as it is pitched with grace.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—Carl Phillips\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlba\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe thought grinds against\u003cbr\u003ethought, improbable brew:\u003cbr\u003ehe, an Italian in silk,\u003cbr\u003ethe Forum choked with the rush-\u003cbr\u003ehour, waspish buzz of Rome.\u003cbr\u003eYet love was there. —My eyes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eopen on layered heights, \u003cbr\u003etwinned histories—petty\u003cbr\u003eand imperial: He strode\u003cbr\u003ebeside me, barrel-chested\u003cbr\u003eat forty-six, his voice \u003cbr\u003eintimate, like leaves at dawn.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":null,"offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":8418319301,"sku":"1-929918-17-8","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/file_43.jpeg?v=1527683211"},{"product_id":"the-burning-of-troy","title":"The Burning of Troy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\r\n\tWinner, Poetry Category of the 2007 Maine Literary Awards\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tThe Burning of Troy\u003c\/em\u003e was catalyzed by the rapid death of Richard Foerster's partner of fifteen years. These verses are a universal voicing of confrontation with mortality as well as a personal testament of loss. Foerster consciously employs distancing voices and devices, including references to Homer and Virgil as well as to Neolithic and Aboriginal cosmologies, among others. As always in Foerster's poetry, there is an attention to the natural world with its hidden symbolic and metaphysical resonances. The book's three sections form a multilayered progression, as the \"I\" becomes a bereaved hero who ventures beyond his personal grief into the larger world of history. \u003cem\u003eThe Burning of Troy\u003c\/em\u003e has been selected winner of the Poetry Category for the 2007 Maine Literary Awards.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\t\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tCairns Birdwing \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t          Ornithopetra priamus euphorion\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tThirty miles out, east of Opal Reef,\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\twhere we'd spent the day snorkeling, \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\ta cloudbank suddenly flared above \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tthe patinating sea. And idly, I imagined\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\ta city's towers massed against the sky\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tand felt a heart-rush like splendor \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tbefore that image of consuming flame,\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tthen came the pin-prick of a thought: \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tWas it beauty I'd kindled with that spark? \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tSo when a handspan of black, green and golden\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tiridescence fluttered across the deck--\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\talighting nowhere, vigorous in its fragility \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tfar from forest shelter--and winged off \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tout into the open Pacific toward that dying\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tbrilliance, I shuddered for what I knew \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\twas lost: Priam again \"with Troy in flames\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tbefore his eyes, his towers headlong fallen.\"\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tYet as we churned back to port in the ash\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tof evening and the image of that insect dwindled \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tto a mirage and a name, from within the taxa\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tof its being a euphoric wisdom began to burn.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t© BOA Editions, Ltd 2006\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tAvailable editions:\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tPaperback ISBN: 978-1-929918-83-6 \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tPrice: $15.50 \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tPublishing Date: October 2006\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":8419033733,"sku":"9781929918836","price":15.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/file_117.jpeg?v=1527683361"},{"product_id":"trillium-1","title":"Trillium","description":"\u003ch4\u003eSigned copies available in limited supply\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLike Francis Ponge and Rainer Maria Rilke, Richard Foerster is a poet of great patience, seeing into objects–be they tulips, fiddleheads, wood ducks–and capturing their deeper energies. R.T. Smith says, \". . . with a gardener's faith in precision and abundance, Richard Foerster applies his considerable knowledge and compassion to matters of politics, science, literary history, flora and fauna, exile, death, disease, and survival, always bringing the marginal and eccentric to the center of our attention. His poems engage us with their beauty and call us back with the wisdom of their enthusiastic ceremonies.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e© BOA Editions, Ltd. 1998. This is a first edition, first printing. Book Condition: Fine. This copy has been archived at BOA Editions, Ltd., since its publication. Unread. Ideal collector's copy. 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