Time Down to Mind

"I like when it feels like poems are 'written for me.' Graham Foust's poems have that effect: the way they sound, the connections they make—to each other, to life, our lives . . . Just open this book and I'm sure you'll agree!"

~Stephen Malkmus, Pavement

"Poet and translator Foust (To Anacreon in Heaven and Other Poems) steeps his impressive new collection in a fascinating and dark mixture of ambivalence and longing as he explores the ways in which meaning is mutable, experience colors perception, and memories collide with the day-to-day. These spare poems are deeply affecting."

~Publishers Weekly

"For Graham Foust, the subject to which he has returned most often across the arc of his previous five volumes—coming back like bees circling though the hive has long vanished—is postmodern malaise, the quiet desperation of 21st-century suburban life and the scattered moments of authentic joy that sometimes, intermittently, charge that life with an emotional electricity it otherwise lacks. Foust's latest collection, Time Down to Mind, continues to form and reform this subject, presenting a speaker weary not only of the world around him, but weary too—and this is the new twist in Foust's long-developing study in malaise—of poetry's pretension to in any way speak to, let alone capture, contemporary reality."

~Christopher Kempf, Colorado Review