Embarrassments: Flood Editions

Foust, Graham

ISBN 10: 173327345X / ISBN 13: 9781733273459

Published by Flood Editions, 2021

About this Item

104 pages. 8.27x5.28x0.32 inches. In Stock.

Seller Inventory # 173327345X

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Embarrassments: Flood Editions
• Publisher: Flood Editions
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 173327345X
• ISBN 13: 9781733273459
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.28 kilograms

About this title

Synopsis

For more than two decades Graham Foust has been sounding out the limits of common expression through precise lyricism, a tragicomic, almost slapstick absurdism, and syncopated guesses about what things might mean. Embarrassments offers a synthesis of that work. Running through the concerns of parenthood, climate change, and our inevitable insignificance is Foust's total commitment to excavating the strangeness of language and our entanglement with the words we share.

Sample Poem:

the perception of what passes in one's own mind
according to Locke, and what passes, too, is time,
which makes its way to what since the 1300s
has been called knowledge, and which, like many concepts,
has multiple names by which it can and does go,
as we say snake for serpent and ship for vessel
and grief for unhappiness, mourning, or sorrow,
and you think you're gone alone, but I'm not there too,
my disappearance a reconnaissance of you.

About the Author

Graham Foust lives in Colorado and works at the University of Denver. He has published nine books of his own poetry, as well as four volumes translated (with Samuel Frederick) from the German poet Ernst Meister.