Graham Foust
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Graham Foust is the author of several collections of poetry, including A Mouth in California (Flood Editions, 2009) and To Anacreon in Heaven and Other Poems (forthcoming from Flood Editions, April 2013). He teaches at the University of Denver.
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Reviews
Though Foust’s poems are fragmentary, hushed, and stripped down, they radiate lushness. —Sandra Lim, Boston Review
Foust has achieved a wide reputation in and beyond experimental poetry circles for his clipped, breathless poems, often no longer than one or two haiku, but packing an intimate punch that belies their length...Commenting on contemporary American life without explicitly describing it, Foust remains a poet to watch. —Publishers Weekly
[S]hort-short poems, mash-ups of two kinds of knowingness (literary and musical) set against a contemporary exurban landscape suffused with loneliness, violence and erotic need, and never enough money. The borrowings are almost beside the point; Foust doesn't so much appropriate sources as embed his poems in the cultural subsoil that nourished him. —Ange Mlinko, The Nation
Nearly as intriguing as Foust’s deductions are his questions, capable of spinning a poem into being...These many rhetorics create poems that are not lonely creations but uneasy patchworks of spaces from which to think. —Jason Stumpf, Jacket
Foust’s poems proceed by contradiction, as he takes a subject, ponders it, detours from it, cloisters it, disregards it, interrogates it, imagines and imagines further—yet keeps the reader in the company of flesh and blood, heart and soul. —John Skoyles, Ploughshares
Foust’s poems often present just this sort of conundrum – at one level a suburban still-life, on another a tale of depravity just below the surface – the economy with which all this is accomplished can be startling, and is why I feel no hesitation in praising this work to the skies. —Ron Silliman
Reviews of books translated by Graham Foust
In Time's Rift
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- Graham Foust's faculty page at Saint Mary's College of California
Poems in translation
- Untitled (at the Academy of American Poets)
Poems
- “Slave (Jagger/Richards)” (in the Boston Review)
- “The Good Historian” (in the Boston Review)
- “Babel” (in A Public Space)
- Four poems (in Shampoo)
- “Found Poems” (in Noo)
- “Politics” (in Nothing to Say & Saying It)
Interviews
- Gina Myers, Frontier Psychiatrist
- Paul Ebenkamp, Studio One
- Lance Phillips, Here Comes Everybody
Articles
- “Listening to Poetry: Jack Spicer and the fiftieth-anniversary issue of Poetry”, Jacket
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- Collection of recorded readings of Graham Foust at the Knox Writers House website
- Recording of Mary Jo Bang and Graham Foust reading for the Center of the Art of Translation
- Graham Foust and Samuel Frederick reading their translation of Ernst Meister at the Henry Art Gallery, during the 2011 3 Days of Poetry: Poetry in Translation festival.
- Reading at UC Berkeley for their Lunch Poems series
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No readings are scheduled at this time.
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