Foy John Foy

No One Leaves the World Unhurt (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

John Foy's newest collection is a tour de force of formal poetry, offering a blend of wit, cleverness, and deftness. Working in the lineage of poets like Billy Collins, Robert Frost, Frank O'Hara, W. H. Auden, and Elizabeth Bishop, Foy probes everyday experiences to generate compassionate, clever, and deeply knowing verse. While moments in No One Leaves the World Unhurt may appear absurd or even funny on the surface-such as a psychological exploration of the Lord of the Rings character Gollum-beneath this lightheartedness lies a tone that is grim and foreboding. Foy satirizes various elements of contemporary society, reflecting on war, wandering through the Museum of Sex in New York with his wife, and plucking apart idiomatic speech, which he breaks down, saying "e;It is what it is. / It's not what it might have been."e; Influenced by pop art and fine art and his New York home, which forms the backdrop of many of these poems, Foy's vibrant collection is simultaneously philosophical, whimsical, serious, and searching.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Autumn House Press
• Seitenzahl: 80
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781938769788
• Artikelnr.: 70879140

Autorenporträt

John Foy holds an MFA from Columbia University and lives with his family in New York, where he works as a senior financial editor. He is the author of three books of poems: At Play (Kelsay Books), No One Leaves the World Unhurt (Autumn House Press), and Night Vision (St. Augustine’s Press). His work has been included in anthologies, most recently in Outer Space – 100 Poems (Cambridge University Press). His poetry has been published widely in journals and online. He is a co-host of the Morningside Poetry Series in uptown Manhattan.