num_pages: 75
description: Poetry. Winner of the 2003 Sawtooth Poetry Prize, judged by Joe Wenderoth, who comments, in his "There are many ways to hear 'it takes off the top of my head.' For me, the most important way to hear it it makes me suddenly and oddly aware that I am alive--aware that I am simultaneously at the end and the beginning of my power, which is simply to be there and to say so. Foust's poems do this for me; I feel akin to the mute struggler that lurks all around these poems that eludes so many attempts at saying that and where and how he is. The struggle is, in my view, dignified -- never self-congratulatory, never self-pitying -- and it has produced sounds for us to come back to--sounds for us to set out from"--Joe Wenderoth, from the introduction.
language: English
title: Leave the Room To Itself
titlecomplete: Leave the Room To Itself
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 112
publisher: Ahsahta Press