Background
Foerster, Richard Alfons was born on October 29, 1949 in New York City. Son of Alfons Foerster and Elizabeth Zakrzewicz.
( Trillium shows how what we might call marginalia is wha...)
Trillium shows how what we might call marginalia is what, in fact, enriches our lives.
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( The Burning of Troy was catalyzed by the rapid death o...)
The Burning of Troy was catalyzed by the rapid death of Richard Foerster’s partner of fifteen years. However, Foerster’s lines are less a private testament of loss and grief than the universal voicing of a lover’s confrontation with mortality. To connect to this universal experience, Foerster consciously employs various distancing devices, voices, and mythic allusions. And, as always in his poetry, there is an attention to the natural world with its hidden symbolic and metaphysical resonances.
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( In Double Going, Richard Foerster's tightly chiseled po...)
In Double Going, Richard Foerster's tightly chiseled poems are rife with a doubling of images and motifs that reappear like musical phrases sounding in different contexts. The title speaks to the dual nature of love and anger that a son feels towards his father. Richard Foerster is the author of three previous poetry collections, Sudden Harbor and Patterns of Decent (Orchises Press) and Trillium (BOA), which received Honorable Mention for the 2000 Poets' Prize. He is the editor of the literary magazine Chelsea. He lives in York Beach, Maine.
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(Richard Foerster does the office of poet so proudly and s...)
Richard Foerster does the office of poet so proudly and so well. "Sudden Harbor" is a kind of sacrament, in which he creates primordial poems such as people seem to have forgotten how to write. The book reads with calmness and conviction and is light-bearing. Foerster's style is always steady and these poems are not to be deterred. Altogether this is a most impressive body of poetry. ~~Karl Shapiro
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Book by Foerster, Richard
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Foerster, Richard Alfons was born on October 29, 1949 in New York City. Son of Alfons Foerster and Elizabeth Zakrzewicz.
Bachelor in English, Fordham College, 1971. Master of Arts in English, University Virginia, 1972.
Assistant editor Clarence L. Barnhart Inc., Bronxville, New York, 1973-1976. Language arts editor Prentice Hall Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1976-1979. Associate editor Chelsea magazine, New York City, 1978-1994, editor, 1994—2001, Chautauqua Literature Journal, 2003—2008.
Freelance educational writer, editor, York Beach, Maine, 1979—1993. Freelance typesetter & editor, York, since 1993. Member prize committee The Poets' Prize, New York City, since 2001.
International writer-in-residence, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 2002.
( In Double Going, Richard Foerster's tightly chiseled po...)
( The Burning of Troy was catalyzed by the rapid death o...)
( Trillium shows how what we might call marginalia is wha...)
(Richard Foerster does the office of poet so proudly and s...)
(Book by Foerster, Richard)
Fellow: Society Arts Religion and Contemporary Culture. Member: Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, National Book Critics Circle.
Married Valerie Elizabeth Malinowski, October 28, 1972 (divorced 1986).
