Necessary Stranger

by Graham, Foust

• ISBN13: 9780978746711
• ISBN10: 0978746716
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-12-30
• Publisher: Small Pr Distribution

Summary

Poetry. Graham Foust's third book offers agile poems of dread and humor. Robert Creeley writes, "These poems move in close to luxuriant circles, round and round each particular syllable, neither hurrying nor dragging behind--just there. At times there seems an almost physical presence to them, a third dimension, which is substance." Foust is also the author of AS IN EVERY DEAFNESS and LEAVE THE ROOM TO ITSELF, available from SPD. He teaches Creative Writing at Saint Mary's College of California.

Author Biography

Graham Foust teaches in the graduate and undergraduate writing programs at Saint Mary's College of California.

Table of Contents

1984	p. 1
Jump	p. 2
Panama	p. 3
Huffy	p. 4
Of what seems like my father	p. 5
Barest gist	p. 7
A note on ontology	p. 8
Just a voice	p. 10
Vacation	p. 11
Interstate eighty	p. 12
Rural mall with flag at half-mast	p. 13
Iowa city	p. 15
Managed care	p. 16
To my student loans	p. 17
Two versions of the same watery, domestic poem	p. 18
Number one hit song	p. 20
Chat room	p. 22
Google	p. 23
Balmoral	p. 24
After Aretha Franklin	p. 25
You don't even live once	p. 26
Only the asymptotes	p. 27
Devotio Moderna	p. 28
Historyless	p. 29
Bulimia	p. 30
I dream of teeth	p. 32
Los Angeles	p. 33
In the space provided	p. 34
Shift change, the Old Pink, Buffalo, New York	p. 35
Why I am not a painter	p. 37
Patriot act	p. 39
Blood test	p. 41
Apnea	p. 42
Country and western	p. 43
The mention	p. 44
Summer camp	p. 45
Bar fight	p. 46
Herein	p. 47
Suburb	p. 48
At the movies	p. 49
Day job	p. 50
To a broken payphone	p. 51
Graveyard shift	p. 52
Commercial	p. 53
Marital	p. 54
Formal	p. 56
Aphoristic	p. 57
Parental	p. 58
Sob poem	p. 60
Life story	p. 61
After meat	p. 62
Poem with hands and tools	p. 63
Clouds	p. 65
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