{"product_id":"your-form-became-my-own-jeanne-foster-9781639802333","title":"Your Form Became My Own","description":"\"There is another world, but it is in this one,\" wrote Paul ﾉluard, and Jeanne Foster's numinous, visionary poems in \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eYour Form Became My Own\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e illustrate this insight better than any I know. Deeply felt, elegantly articulated, and brilliantly imaginative, they are set in Italy, California, and the American Gulf Coast of her youth. On the one hand, she is writing a religious poem, and at the same time a love poem. Foster's gift is to witness again and again the timeless in a single glimpse. Her focus is pure, her language of a compelling originality, beauty, and exactness, and her metaphors have the authority of facts. She affirms a mutable, animated, and personal world with a prayerful candor that I have not seen since reading the Italian poems of her mentor, James Wright.\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Rodney Jones\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJeanne Foster's marvelous poems live in what the psychoanalyst DW Winnicott called the potential space between the self and other. What we find there-love, loss, madness, God-is evoked not as languid dreamscape but in sharply chiseled images: A foot \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003ethe shape of the Amati Violin, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e a father who \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003espeaks a language \/ known to doves.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eThe presences in these poems are saturated with absence, while an almost-lover becomes an ineffable, but somehow consoling, presence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-David Shaddock, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003ePoetry and Psychoanalysis: The Opening of the Field\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA collection of great originality and beauty, marvelous details and strong feelings; somehow under the spell of Montale in its mysteriousness and Italian setting. I like the plot of the ghost lover. Jeanne Foster's poetry holds within it the small-a baby lizard-and the great-the roofless skeleton of the church of San Galgano: \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003ethe ceiling sweeping strokes \/ of pure blue ether\u003c\/i\u003e-\u003ci\u003e \/ open soul.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e -Bianca Tarozzi\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jeanne Foster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1639802339\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781639802333\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Kelsay Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/31\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 78\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.28lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.19d","brand":"Jeanne Foster","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44122189988095,"sku":"9781639802333","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_17f46c54-9477-431b-a567-6ed4eb5a56c4.jpg?v=1687423696","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/your-form-became-my-own-jeanne-foster-9781639802333","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}