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  • Paperback: 80 pages
  • Publisher: Triquarterly (April 28, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0810127458
  • ISBN-13: 978-0810127456
  • Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 0.8 x 8.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsReview of Brett Foster's The Garbage Eater
By benjaminjchase on June 11, 2011
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The Garbage Eater is a collection of expansive poems by Brett Foster that probe diverse subjects ranging from a Berkley cult to a relief pitcher from the Kansas City Royals. Foster's voice is bold but also gentle, resisting the urge to turn even the strangest subjects, such as Wendy O. Williams in "Trashy Elegy for the Queen of Shock Rock," into mere caricatures. Foster wastes neither words nor experiences, combining both the rarities and refuse of the world into poetry of praise.

The collection also communicates a deeply introspective, nuanced Christian faith. "The First Request of Lazarus" exposes the unique situation of Lazarus from the Gospel Accounts, and imagines him ironically desirous of a "death pregnant / with meaning, reliable passing." In "The Advent Calendar," Foster reminds us that the Christian Creeds wrestle to wrap divine mysteries in the limits of finite language. He suggests here, however, that the alternative to such struggle is a mechanistic life, an advent calendar stripped of its adornments to reveal only a series of doors to "count" and "count...down." "Petition: California Avenue" presents a humble, vulnerable look at the difficulties of (anonymous) intercessory prayer, and even suggests that prayer can become, at times, only an avenue of escape from more substantive action. Finally, in "Longing, Lenten," borrowing imagery from Ash Wednesday, Foster suggests that "yearning" and "awkward if not more earnest prayer" are the requisite responses to a transient existence "in the clear face of dust."

The scope of these poems is both wide and intimate--a gamut representative of Dr. Brett Foster's wide-ranging experiences and personal academic involvements. I highly recommend it.
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5.0 out of 5 starsBelieve!
By J. Wahlgren on May 21, 2011
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This is a wonderful book that I'm glad I picked up. I'm uncertain if this is lyrical poetry or not. It is very descriptive and it tells, not letting the reader necessarily interpret, which could be religious or not, but the content of the book is religious & made me a believer in the process regardless of whether or not this is ideal poetry. I think it could be in some aspects. Foster seems to wrap up each poem in a blanket (at the frayed endings) to keep each warm. I'm going to be reading & studying this one for a while. Thank you, Brett.
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5.0 out of 5 starsAn engaging, audacious melding of spirituality and irreverence
By M McVey on January 7, 2012
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Intense, cerebral, funny, and compassionate are some of the simpler descriptors of this book of poetry. Foster's first collection spans over a decade of work and covers a wide range of scenes and subject matter, including intimate memories of childhood, popular culture, and history both well known and obscure.

One standout is "Meditation in an Olive Garden." No other poem has made me laugh harder, and I admire the crazy, obsessive precision of its attention to a problem experienced while eating there: A horde of flies hovering over the moscatelli while their much needed predator--a spider--sits oblivious and "untroubled" as a "dormant cathedral" on the wrong side of the plate glass window. The poet's voice is a wonderful blend of awe and irreverence as he depicts the "honest, mindless enterprise" of the flies within the contrived world of a faux-Italian chain restaurant. This is just one example of how Foster lends acute attention to various inane realities of common life which clearly challenge his composure but never quite snuff out his diligent yearning for transcendence, which never comes at the expense of compassionate engagement with other people.

In contrast to the humor of the Olive Garden meal, there is deep sadness in Foster's poem "Intercession: For My Daughter", and yet the sadness is contained with a sense of rectitude and formality seen even in the compound title effected by the presence of a colon. Such an approach to grief can have value, and in this case helps enlarge the poem beyond the particularities of a dad's prayer for his sick daughter towards something greater--the prayer of the living for the dying--an honorable poetic impulse.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsThe Garbage Eater
By poetmom on October 24, 2011
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In this beautiful collection of poems, or rather, incarnations, Foster fuses the heart with the intellect, the human with the divine. Ruminate on these poems, and you will be richly rewarded.
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