Brett Foster
TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press published Brett Foster's first collection, The Garbage Eater, in 2011. His work has recently appeared in Crab Orachard Review, Pleiades, and Ascent. He teaches creative writing and Renaissance Literature at Wheaton College, in Illinois.
Reading List
Meditation on “In Memoriam”
Not “is survived by,” that gravely passive voice to deactivate the dead, but “He leaves his wife of fifty years, Constance,” as if the journey were his to determine, and compared with this life the more important thing. There is …