Paradise Drive links 80 sonnets in a narrative about a modern Pilgrim on a journey from rust belt Pennsylvania to the glittering suburbs of Marin County, California. The book takes great pleasure in questioning, tinkering with, and ultimately exploding the sonnet form.
About the poet:
Rebecca Foust won the 2015 American Literary Review Creative Writing Award for Fiction judged by Garth Greenwell and the 2015 James Heart Poetry Prize judged by Jane Hirshfield. She was the 2014 Dartmouth Poet in Residence and the recipient of fellowships from The Frost Place, the MacDowell Colony, and the Sewanee Writer’s Conference. Her fifth book, Paradise Drive, won the 2015 Press 53 Award for Poetry.
Her other books include All That Gorgeous Pitiless Song (Many Mountains Moving Prize), God, Seed (Foreword Book of the Year Award) and two chapbooks that won the Robert Phillips Chapbook Prizes in 2008 and 2009. Foust’s poems appear widely in journals including American Academy of Poets Poem-A-Day series, Hudson Review, Massachusetts Review, Poetry Daily, Sewanee Review, and Verse Daily. A first generation college graduate, Foust attended Smith College (BA 1979), Stanford Law School (1979), and Warren Wilson College (MFA 2010). She lives in Northern California and works as Poetry Editor for Women’s Voices for Change and assistant editor for Narrative Magazine.
In this video, Rebecca Foust talks about anaphora and second person in “Apologies to My OBGYN” and “Too Soon.”
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This sounds such an intriguing book.
I agree!
How interesting that she started writing poetry at 50. I love stories of how we can discover hidden talents at any age.
So true! That’s very inspiring!
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Thanks for being on the tour. I really love these videos. You can learn so much from poets this way.
You’re welcome! A video post was different for me, and I like how you get to know the poet more than through a review.
Excellent review, Anna! I learned more about this poet from your post. I am also on the tour for this collection of poetry.
Thanks, Suko! I’ll have to check out your tour stop as soon as I can.
Really enjoyed the video clip and I’m excited to read the book!
Great, thanks for stopping by!