Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Edward Foster's poetry, always exacting and infinitely sweeping, comes to us like a whisper from behind our own ears. . . His poems suspend themselves just above language, connotative of some understanding--perhaps common to all of us--that recedes at the brink of words. It is just on this cusp, with some doubt, some explaining, that we find Foster, and trust him to guide us on an impossible course. With pristine lucidity, he knows, the 'propositions weren't enough.'--Brooklyn Rail