All That Gorgeous Pitiless Song (2010) — Rebecca Foust

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Rebecca Foust’s poems won the James Dickey Prize and the Fischer Cantor Prize in 2024 and the New Ohio Review Prize in 2023 and are in recent issues of The Common, Iowa Review, POETRY, Ploughshares, and Southern Review. Her eight books include YOU ARE LEAVING THE AMERICAN SECTOR (Backbone 2024), inspired by the parallels between George Orwell’s 1984 and our country’s emerging political landscape, and ONLY (Four Way Books, 2022), which earned a starred review in Publishers Weekly. Other recognitions include the James Hearst, Pablo Neruda, and Poetry International prizes, fellowships from The Frost Place, Hedgebrook, MacDowell, and Sewanee, and a Marin County Poet Laureateship where Rebecca’s program, “Poetry as Sanctuary,” featured readings by local immigrant poets. Rebecca was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania and now divides her time between northern California and northern Minnesota.

80 pp perfect bound, acid free paper 6" x 9" Winner of the fifth Many Mountains Moving Press Poetry Book Prize, selected by Steven Huff

ISBN: 978-1-886976-24-5

80 pages

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Reviews

Peter Campion

"All That Gorgeous, Pitiless Song brims with amplitude and vitality. By virtue of her unsentimental warmth of spirit, Foust brings to life an immense range of experience and feeling. This poet’s emotional intelligence correlates, too, with her formal skill, that unique talent for phrase and rhythm with which she makes a whole world palpable, from the hugest events that mark a life to those moments as subtle as ‘some nuance you knew once like breath.’ Rebecca Foust is a superb poet, and All That Gorgeous, Pitiless Song is a tremendous book."

Barry Spacks

"Rebecca Foust moves us with passion and intelligence as she broods over what 'divides false / from true.' Her voice, attuned to beauty and hope though often engaged with the hard news of life, startles in its honest, unstinting inventiveness. She writes of generations, of hardscrabble origins, of striving against odds, of motherhood, nature, intimate triumphs and woes. This is poetry of the greatest promise, a book not to be missed."

Susan Griffin

"I find the poems astonishingly strong and beautiful. It’s not common for me to find an unpublished collection of poems as good as this one."