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By John Foy

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1932023208
• ISBN13: 9781932023206
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr
• Length: 73 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.3" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

Incredible book of poetry

Check out this line: "Deer in the dark / move along the wood line / like the ghosts of debutantes / who've died violently and don't remember." If you can find a better similie than that in American poetry, let me know. That's just one highpoint. Foy's twenty-one "Rue des Martyrs" poems, which take up a third of this collection, chronicle a young American artist trying to make his way in Paris, living in a garret along with the ghosts of all the poets who've tried and failed in that city before him. "The question," writes Foy, "isn't whether I see ghosts / but whether they see me." I've read these poems over and over and find something new every time.