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Talking Diamonds: Poems
Linda Nemec Foster (poet)
75 pages; New Issues Press, Kalamazoo, MI 2008.
"In 'Vision,' one of many arresting poems in Talking Diamonds,
Linda Nemec Foster's protagonist sees Our Lady of Guadalupe in
an unlikely Hawaiian setting. Half-waking from reverie, she
recognizes that the Virgin is in fact tattooed, front and back,
on a native man: 'And you tell yourself this isn't a miracle,'
she writes, 'only a tattoo; this isn't anything/extraordinary,
only your life...' But that is precisely what makes her new
collection so compelling: from what Wordsworth called the simple
produce of the common day---a child's piano recital, a family
photograph, a wretched piece of motel art---Foster exacts an
energy that is, precisely, visionary, even miraculous. This is
an effort so widespread in contemporary poetry as itself to seem
a commonplace, and one that generally fails. Not so in Talking
Diamonds, which challenges, intrigues, awes, and ultimately
gratifies, poem after excellent poem."
--Sydney Lea
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Ten Songs from Bulgaria
Linda Nemec Foster (poet)
20 pages; Cervena Barva Press, Somerville, MA 2008.
The first lines in Linda Nemec Foster ’s Ten Songs from Bulgaria, sing 'Small lives, small lives/ we are trapped inside/ small lives.' The paradox here is that Foster’s poems reveal how large and rich the worlds are in which these small lives are lived. In line after line, we encounter the depths and reach of those who live outside the zones of everyday safety. Foster makes herself vulnerable to a world 'as tangible as fog' with her own penetrating observations. She walks 'the long journey' and her poems reflect the haunting music of ode and elegy.
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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.
"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
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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] |
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