Books Authored


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Listen to the Landscape
Linda Nemec Foster (poet)
Dianne Carroll Burdick (artist)

72 pages; dimensions (in inches): 9 x 7; 28 hand-colored photos; 2006

Mirroring the human response to the natural world, this book is a rare synthesis of stunning landscape photography and understated haiku poetry. Dianne Carroll Burdick has photographed what she sees but expressed what she feels by hand-coloring her photographic images. Linda Nemec Foster has followed the traditional form created by Japanese poets over five hundred years ago to pen elegant haiku.


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Amber Necklace from Gdansk: Poems. Linda Nemec Foster. Louisiana State University Press, 2001.
Paperback: Louisiana State University Press: 2001.

"Place and people, language, history, habitat and blood: the free range of Linda Nemec Foster's richly textured witness is a gift—these poems, jewels." --Thomas Lynch


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Contemplating the Heavens: a sequence of poems by Linda Nemec Foster. Ridgeway Press, 2001.

"A beautiful, beautiful book. A stunning gem of poetry, art, and book design." --Faye Kicknosway

Order a signed copy of this book directly from the author.

Order the CD of Steve Talaga's music that was inspired by "Contemplating the Heavens"


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Living in the Fire Nest. Linda Nemec Foster. Ridgeway Press, 1996.

"Linda Nemec Foster writes from a place of deep passion—vivid, vital, alive to the sizzle of story and need. Her sounds and images crackle and explode..." --Naomi Shihab Nye


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Trying to Balance the Heart.
Linda Nemec Foster
Sun Dog Press
1993
 [Out of Print]

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A Modern Fairy Tale: The Baba Yaga Poems
Linda Nemec Foster
Ridgeway Press
(1992)
[Out of Print]


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A History of the Body: Prose Poems
Linda Nemec Foster
Coffee House Press
1987
[Out of Print]

Poems
"A Poem for the Season of Fire and Ice" Grand Rapids Press, December 22, 2002.

"Six Poems" Linda Nemec Foster. Still Life With Conversation by Rebecca Emlinger Roberts, editor. Ridgeway Press 1993.

Six poems by Linda Nemec Foster were included in the original dramatic assemblage, "Still Life With Conversation," directed by Rebecca Emlinger Roberts. Ortonville Community Theater, Ortonville, Michigan, 1993. The text of the play, "Still Life With Conversation," was published by Ridgeway Press in 1993.

"The Obsessed Fan Speaks" Linda Nemec Foster. Elvis in a Boxby Robert Turney, Producer; F. Richard Thomas, Editor. Years Press 1992.

The poem "The Obsessed Fan Speaks" was included in the production "Elvis in a Box," produced by Robert Turney at the Kellogg Center Auditorium, Michigan State University, May, 1992. Published in a boxed assemblage, edited by F. Richard Thomas, 1992.

"Fragments of Athena" Linda Nemec Foster. The Fear of Women by Robert Turney, Producer; F. Richard Thomas, Editor. Years Press 1991.

The poem "Fragments of Athena" was included in the production "The Fear of Women," produced by Robert Turney at the Buckham Fine Arts Gallery in Flint, Michigan, May, 1991. Published in a boxed assemblage, edited by F. Richard Thomas, 1991.

"The Electrolux, The Salesman, The Housewife" Linda Nemec Foster. Nature Adores a Vacuum by Robert Turney, Producer; F. Richard Thomas, Editor. Years Press 1990.

This poem was included in the production, "Nature Adores a Vacuum," produced by Robert Turney at the Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, April, 1990. Published in a boxed assemblage edited by F. Richard Thomas, 1990.