Graham Foust

Foust was born in Knoxville, Tennessee and grew up in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.{{cite book|author=Colorado State University. Dept. of English|title=Colorado review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mYgqAQAAIAAJ|accessdate=7 January 2012|year=2007|publisher=Colorado State University|page=187}}{{cite web |url=http://www.thenation.com/article/gramaphoons |title=Gramaphoons |last=Mlinko |first=Ange |date=April 12, 2010 |work=The Nation |accessdate=January 6, 2012 }} He has a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing from Beloit College, a Master of Fine Arts from George Mason University, and a Ph.D. from the State University of New York-Buffalo.{{cite book|author1=Brett Fletcher Lauer|author2=Aimee Kelley|title=Isn't it romantic: 100 love poems by younger American poets|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WaZlAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=7 January 2012|date=1 November 2004|publisher=Verse Press|isbn=978-0-9746353-1-6|page=164}}{{cite web |url=http://pippoetry.blogspot.com/2010/07/graham-foust.html |title=Graham Foust |last=Messerli |first=Douglas |date=July 5, 2010 |work=The PIP (Project for Innovative Poetry) Blog |accessdate=January 6, 2012 }}

Foust teaches contemporary poetry in both an English literature and creative writing context.{{cite book|author=Joshua Marie Wilkinson|title=Poets on Teaching: A Sourcebook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e2dLVe3p_loC|accessdate=7 January 2012|date=28 August 2010|publisher=University of Iowa Press|isbn=978-1-58729-904-9|pages=102–104}} From 1998 to 2000, Foust, along with Benjamin Friedlander, co-edited Lagniappe, an online journal devoted to poetry and poetics.{{cite book|author=Romana Huk|title=Assembling alternatives: reading postmodern poetries transnationally|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CipOZe01u9kC&pg=PA109|accessdate=7 January 2012|year=2003|publisher=Wesleyan University Press|isbn=978-0-8195-6540-2|pages=109}}{{cite web | url = http://www.umit.maine.edu/~ben.friedlander/lag.html | archive-url = https://archive.today/20030330220740/http://www.umit.maine.edu/~ben.friedlander/lag.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = March 30, 2003 | title = Lagniappe – poetry and poetics in review | work = Lagniappe | accessdate = 7 January 2011 }} From 2002 to 2005, Foust was a professor at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa;{{cite web |url=http://jacketmagazine.com/25/foust-p.html |title=Chris Pusateri reviews Leave the Room to Itself, by Graham Foust |last=Pusateri |first=Chris |date=February 2004 |work=Jacket |accessdate=January 6, 2012 }} he is presently an associate professor at the University of Denver.

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Foust has written six full collections of poetry; As in Every Deafness (Flood Editions, 2003),{{cite web |url=http://bostonreview.net/BR29.6/micros.php |title=Microreviews – As In Every Deafness |last=Jullich |first=Jeffrey |date=December 2004 – January 2005 |work=Boston Review |accessdate=January 6, 2012 }}{{cite web |url=http://www.beloit.edu/belmag/03fall/03fall_departments/03fall_bookshelf.html |title=Beloit Bookshelf – As In Every Deafness |last=Kasten |first=Susan |date=Fall 2003 |work=Beloit College Magazine |accessdate=January 6, 2012 }} Leave the Room to Itself (Ahsahta Press, 2004), Necessary Stranger (Flood Editions, 2007), A Mouth in California (Flood Editions, 2009), To Anacreon In Heaven (Flood Editions, 2013), and "Time Down to Mind" (Flood Editions, 2015).{{cite web |url=http://www.stlouispoetrycenter.org/observable/poets_jeff_friedman_graham_foust_and_stefene_russell/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150812044412/http://www.stlouispoetrycenter.org/observable/poets_jeff_friedman_graham_foust_and_stefene_russell/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 12, 2015 |title=Caution: Flashing Words Ahead As Poets Jeff Friedman, Graham Foust, and Stefene Russell Visit Observable Readings on Monday, April 4 |last=Staff |date=March 15, 2011 |work=St. Louis Poetry Center |accessdate=January 6, 2012 }}

He most recently published a collection of translations from German, in collaboration with Samuel Frederick, of Ernst Meister's later poems titled In Time's Rift [Im Zeitspalt], through Wave Books in September, 2012.{{cite web |url=http://www.wavepoetry.com/catalog/118-in-time-s-rift-im-zeitspalt- |title=In Time's Rift (Im Zeitspalt) |last=Staff |work=Wave Poetry |accessdate=January 6, 2012 }}{{Dead link|date=June 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

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You don’t lust

for what you

want. You lust

for what you

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Three of Foust's poems were featured in the winter 2009 (volume 43, issue 1) edition of The Laurel Review: The Only Poem, Promotional, and Frost at Midnight. Foust's work was also chosen by Robert Creeley for the Beyond Arcadia issue of Conjunctions.

David Pavelich believes Foust's poetry to be "a unique blend of whisper and raw humor, darkness and economy of thought".[https://web.archive.org/web/20080705023514/http://www.chicagopostmodernpoetry.com/gfoust.htm Profile by David Pavelich], chicagopostmodernpoetry.com Foust's third book, Necessary Stranger, was described as "intense, hip, ironic and subtly humorous" in Publishers Weekly,{{cite news | url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-9787467-1-1|date=22 January 2007 | title=Fiction review: Necessary Stranger – Graham W. Foust / Author | work= Publishers Weekly |accessdate=7 January 2012}} and in December 2007 reached third place on the small-press poetry best-seller list.{{cite news | work = The New York Times | author = Dwight Garner | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/books/review/27tbr.html | title = Inside the List | date = 27 January 2008 | accessdate = 7 January 2012 }} His fourth book, A Mouth in California, received a starred review in Publishers Weekly, which noted that Foust had "achieved a wide reputation in and beyond experimental poetry circles for his clipped, breathless poems, often no longer than one or two haiku, but packing an intimate punch that belies their length."{{cite news | url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-9819520-1-7|work= Publishers Weekly |date=25 January 2010 | title=Fiction review: A Mouth in California – Graham W. Foust / Author | accessdate=7 January 2012}}

Foust has cited Rae Armantrout as an influence; Armantrout pronounced herself "quite pleased" with that, saying she was "very fond of [Foust's] work", but considered Foust to have a distinctive style: "Foust's poems are minimalist, yes, more so than mine, in fact, but his sensibility is very much his own."{{cite book|author1=Christina Mengert|author2=Joshua Marie Wilkinson|title=12 x 12: conversations in 21st-century poetry and poetics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ykXxsz4cpFwC&pg=PA28|accessdate=7 January 2012|date=16 April 2009|publisher=University of Iowa Press|isbn=978-1-58729-791-5|pages=28–29}} A review of A Mouth in California in the Oxonian Review characterised Foust's work as "bleak, funny, curt, and self-effacing", informed by the understanding that "everyday speech, set slightly out of joint or context, can deliver both personal and collective revelation. [...] Foust [...] doesn’t take himself too seriously, yet he’s a seriously good poet. [...] And best of all, Foust is subtle."{{cite news | author=Stephen Ross | date = 28 June 2010 | url=http://www.oxonianreview.org/wp/a-foustian-bargain/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110107102559/http://www.oxonianreview.org/wp/a-foustian-bargain/ | url-status=usurped | archive-date=January 7, 2011 |title=A Foustian Bargain | work=Oxonian Review | accessdate=7 January 2012}}

• Nightingalelessness (Flood Editions, 2018)
• Time Down to Mind (Flood Editions, 2015)
• Of Entirety Say the Sentence, poems by Ernst Meister, co-translated with Samuel Frederick (Wave Books, 2015)
• Wallless Space, poems by Ernst Meister, co-translated with Samuel Frederick (Wave Books, 2014)
• To Anacreon in Heaven and Other Poems (Flood Editions, 2013)
• [http://wavepoetry.myshopify.com/collections/authors/products/in-time-s-rift-im-zeitspalt In Time's Rift [Im Zeitspalt]] poems by Ernst Meister, co-translated with Samuel Frederick (Wave Books, 2012)
• A Mouth In California (Flood Editions, 2009)
• Necessary Stranger (Flood Editions, 2007)
• As in Every Deafness (Flood Editions, 2003)
• Leave the Room to Itself (Ahsahta, 2003)

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• [http://www.wavepoetry.com/authors/81-graham-foust Author Homepage] at Wave Books
• [http://wwws.stmarys-ca.edu/forms/faculty-and-staff/faculty-detail.html?fac=536&pg=home Graham Foust's Faculty Homepage] at St Mary's College of California
• Graham Foust's poem [http://www.gulfcoastmag.org/index.php?n=3&si=46&s=2819 "Vicarious" in Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts (24.1)].
• [http://jacketmagazine.com/14/foust-on-stevens.html Graham Swift, 'Wallace Stevens's Manuscript: As If in The Dump'], Jacket, July 2001
• [http://www.umit.maine.edu/~ben.friedlander/lagniappe.html Lagniappe] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081201222855/http://www.umit.maine.edu/~ben.friedlander/lagniappe.html |date=2008-12-01 }} online journal archive

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