From Publishers Weekly Foster's characters are ambivalent and finally gun-shy concerning their own potential for action: "His grand schemes notwithstanding"; "regardless of whatever we predict"; "aspiration he has never seen but always known"; "no teletype telling us what we're to read"; "You list to the left, vote/ for the first time in years, / please your mother." Except perhaps where the act of knowing, even subjectively, is concerned, so long as it's not knowledge about people or desire: "Know first that objects and their laws have weight, at least to me and you." Otherwise Foster (The...