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The "Garbage Eater" of the title poem in Brett Foster's provocative collection is a member of a religious sect (some would say cult) in the Bay Area who lives an ascetic life eating scraps from dumpsters. Just as this simple way of life exists within the most technologically advanced region in the world, Foster's poems are likewise animated by the constant tension between material reality and an unabashed yearning for transcendence. The titles of Foster's poems--"Like as a ship, that through the Ocean wyde," "Meditation in an Olive Garden," "Little Flowers of Dan Quisenberry" --nod to the poems of the classical, medieval, and Renaissance masters he studies as a scholar.

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Book category Knihy po anglicky Literature & literary studies Poetry

• Full title: Garbage Eater
• Subtitle: Poems
• Author: Brett Foster
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80
• EAN: 9780810127456
• ISBN: 9780810127456
• ID: 06334452
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Weight: 159 g
• Dimensions: 213 × 155 × 10 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. April 2011

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