{"product_id":"only-poems-paperback","title":"Only: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRebecca Foust\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUrgent from the outset, Rebecca Foust's \u003ci\u003eOnly\u003c\/i\u003e insists that the only thing worth writing about is everything. Prompted to confront what she does not know, the speaker lists, \"Null. All. What's after death or before.\" This book scales the cliff-face of adulthood, that paradoxical ascent in which the longer we live the less we know of life, in which we find that each of us is only ourselves and yet delicately interconnected with everyone, everything, else. These candid lyrics ponder our broken political systems, family (dys)function and parenting challenges, divergent and intersecting identities, the complexities of sexuality, natural refuge and climate catastrophe, and in general what it means to be human in a world that sometimes feels as if it is approaching apocalypse. At the ledge of this abyss, however, Foust reminds us of the staggering beauty of life, the legacies of survival in the echoes of care that outlast us: \"I came \/ to the canyon rim and saw \/\/ how best to carry you: I let the stone go.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRebecca Foust is the author of \u003ci\u003eParadise Drive\u003c\/i\u003e (Press 53, 2015), winner of the Press 53 Award for Poetry and the Poetry Society of Virginia Book Award; \u003ci\u003eAll That Gorgeous Pitiless Song\u003c\/i\u003e (Many Mountains Moving, 2010), winner of the Many Mountains Moving Book Prize; and \u003ci\u003eGod, Seed: Poetry \u0026amp; Art about the Natural World\u003c\/i\u003e (Tebot Bach, 2010), a collaboration with artist Lorna Stevens that won the Foreword Book of the Year Award for Poetry. Her chapbooks are \u003ci\u003eThe Unexploded Ordnance Bin\u003c\/i\u003e (Swan Scythe Press, 2020) winner of the Swan Scythe Chapbook Award, and \u003ci\u003eMom's Canoe\u003c\/i\u003e (Texas Review Press 2009) and \u003ci\u003eDark Card\u003c\/i\u003e (Texas Review Press 2008), winners of the Robert Phillips Poetry Prize in consecutive years. Foust's poems appear widely, in \u003ci\u003eThe Hudson Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNarrative\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePOETRY\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Southern Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. Recognitions include the 2020 Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry judged by Kaveh Akbar, the C.P. Cavafy and James Hearst Poetry Prizes, a 2017-19 Marin County Poet Laureateship, and fellowships from The Frost Place, Hedgebrook, MacDowell, and Sewanee Writers' Conference.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 88\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.24 x 8.9 x 5.83 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 15, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47351103422713,"sku":"9781954245297","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/SEt0UXYwbldjaitWSTlOZnlzTFpiZz09.webp?v=1769795170","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/only-poems-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}