Extravagant Rescues: Poems
Language: English
Published by Northwestern University Press, 2019
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In the depths of an illness that would ultimately claim his life, the poet and professor Brett Foster offered a parting gift, Extravagant Rescues, a sublime collection of poetry that lays bare the human and poetic brilliance of a man immersed in capturing human beings' mortal splendor and frailty within their own technology and flaws.
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- Title
- Extravagant Rescues: Poems
- Author
- Brett Foster
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press
- Publication year
- 2019
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0810140543
- ISBN 13
- 9780810140547
The poems ask questions with hymnlike couplets, in a language of the gospel of empathy. We are allowed to rethink our choices, question and be wary of our machinery, and, in the end, with metaphors that channel feelings of loss, humor, and compassion, we are reminded “to come, and dream, with eyes wide open / and set within the vessels of our waking selves, / of ever more intricate schemes, extravagant rescues.”
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JEFFREY GALBRAITH teaches English literature and creative writing at Wheaton College. His scholarly work has appeared in the journal Restoration and the edited collection Invoking Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century British Imagination. His poems and reviews have appeared in Cresset, Yemassee, RHINO, Southern Humanities Review, the Florida Review, and Harvard Review.
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