“Plath’s life and work was central to my early education as a wannabe poet, and her battles with self-extinction were also mine. And so at more than twice her age when she died, as I sat reading the last pages of Red Comet, Heather Clark’s magnificent biography of Plath, knowing full-well how the story would end, everything around me seemed to conspire to keep me fully present amid a wondrous confusion of life.”
Richard Foerster’s eighth collection, Boy on a Doorstep: New and Selected Poems (Tiger Bark Press, 2019), received the 2020 Poetry by the Sea Book Award. Recent poems appear in Notre Dame Review, Tar River Poetry, The Night Heron Barks, and The American Journal of Poetry, among others. He lives in Eliot, Maine.
