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paper \u2022 88 pages \u2022 $17.95
ISBN: 978-1-954245-29-7
eISBN: 978-1-954245-36-5
September 2022 \u2022 Poetry<\/p>\n

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Only<\/em><\/h1>\n

Rebecca Foust<\/h2>\n

Received a Starred Review in\u00a0Publishers Weekly<\/em><\/a><\/h5>\n

Urgent from the outset, Rebecca Foust\u2019s Only<\/em> insists that the only thing worth writing about is everything. Prompted to confront what she does not know, the speaker lists, \u201cNull. All. What\u2019s after death or before.\u201d This book scales the cliff-face of adulthood, that paradoxical ascent in which the longer we live the less we know of life, in which we find that each of us is only ourselves and yet delicately interconnected with everyone, everything, else. These candid lyrics ponder our broken political systems, family (dys)function and parenting challenges, divergent and intersecting identities, the complexities of sexuality, natural refuge and climate catastrophe, and in general what it means to be human in a world that sometimes feels as if it is approaching apocalypse. At the ledge of this abyss, however, Foust reminds us of the staggering beauty of life, the legacies of survival in the echoes of care that outlast us: \u201cI came \/ to the canyon rim and saw \/\/ how best to carry you: I let the stone go.\u201d<\/p>\n

“Only” from\u00a0Only<\/em><\/p>\n

O Love this happened or it did not.
In a room with green walls<\/p>\n

my son was born. The cord was torn
too soon, so they cut off<\/p>\n

his head to save his heart. He lived
for a long time.<\/p>\n

For a long time there was no breath or cry.
When finally he spoke,<\/p>\n

he spoke the wide, whorled leaves of corn.
He spoke the crickets<\/p>\n

in clusters beneath the sheaves, he sang
the soil in. He sang the wind<\/p>\n

in the dune and hush of ebb tide. Some say
he died. Some say he died.<\/p>\n

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