"There is another world, but it is in this one," wrote Paul ?luard, and Jeanne Foster's numinous, visionary poems in Your Form Became My Own 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...
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