Brett Foster

The Small Books of Bach

Arts & Literature

“From a 'singed g-minor' in wartime to a 'Sestina for Bach's Mama,' Wright's Bach is an imaginative creation suited to the revival tent and electric organ, feeling all along the 'hum and rhythm' present in the syncopated experiences of art and belief.”

Winnower

Arts & Literature

“Like the bent, laboring woman in his opening poem, Brown's poems sift memories in search of the 'ripeness of belonging,' and a land 'not fully mine but more of me than anywhere else.' As he says with a kind of bardic authority that is startling and thrilling for his young age, 'We must draw deeper from the old life.' Readers will find much to draw from here, a poetic sustenance both old in spirit and vitally new in voice.”