{"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","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/products\/the-burning-of-troy","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}