Deftly understated and profoundly powerful poems catalyzed by the death of the poet's longtime partner.

In this sixth collection, the award-winning poet Richard Foerster probes the innermost recesses of awareness not only to confront deep-seated fears of mortality, moral failure and abandonment by a beloved but also to celebrate the mystery of our tenuous existence within Nature's uncompromising order. In "Penetralia" language itself ultimately becomes the necessary ceremonial means by which the poet acknowledges and honors the terrifying sacredness that resides everywhere within. Ranging across landscapes both real and mythic, from New England gardens to a tomb in ancient Egypt, these new...

Der Raub der Persephone" ist eine bekannte Geschichte der griechischen Mythologie. Persephone, eigentlich Kore, und Tochter der Demeter wird von Hades, dem Gott der Unterwelt entfuhrt. Aus Trauer und Gram hindert Demeter die Pflanzen am Wachstum, was Zeus schliesslich zum Eingreifen zwingt, mochte er verhindern, dass die Welt an Hunger zugrunde geht. Persephone kehrt also aus der Unterwelt zuruck - allerdings nur fur einen Teil des Jahres. Dieser Geschichte in all ihren Einzelheiten hat sich Richard Foerster angenommen. Er analysiert ihre Bedeutung und arbeitet zudem die geschichtliche...

Set primarily in a garden alongside a tidal river in Maine, River Road maps the troubled path of a middle-aged man torn between longing for an idealized past that never existed and realizing he must remain vulnerable to a future of love.
Over Breakfast
. . . he said, "We need to reinvent
ourselves," meaning not so much the
"pair" as the each of us, as if we
could unroll the raw blue-print of
being, right there
on the table between us
by setting our bowls and cups at
the corners to fix it
in place and staring down
abstract anew the physics of...