{"product_id":"your-form-became-my-own","title":"Your Form Became My Own","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJeanne Foster\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor Emerita at Saint Mary’s College of California. She also is a Unitarian Universalist minister. Born in Florida, she grew up in New Orleans and graduated with Honors from Tulane University. On a Woodrow Wilson scholarship, she studied with acclaimed process philosopher, Charles Hartshorne, and German Heideggerian, Karsten Harries, at the University of Texas in Austin. It was after she moved to Boston that she began to focus on creative writing at the Boston School for Adult Education.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAt Breadloaf Writers’ Conference, she worked with Galway Kinnell and, while there, was persuaded to spend some time in Buffalo, where John Logan invited her to sit-in on his writing workshop. He also introduced her to James Wright, visiting one summer at the University of Buffalo, who became her primary mentor and a friend. From Buffalo she took a wide leap across the continent to Berkeley, where she received an M.Div. degree followed by a Ph.D. in Religion, Literature, and the Arts from the Graduate Theological Union. After six years as pastor in Modesto, she opted for a teaching career at Saint Mary’s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eShe has published widely in journals, including \u003cem\u003eHudson Review, Paris Review, The Nation, Narrative,\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAPR.\u003c\/em\u003e Her early poetry collection, \u003cem\u003eA Blessing of Safe Travel,\u003c\/em\u003e won the Quarterly Review of Literature Poetry Award. Of a later collection, \u003cem\u003eGoodbye, Silver Sister,\u003c\/em\u003e Richard Tillinghast writes: Foster “makes a reader feel he is entering deep into what Yeats called ‘the labyrinth of another’s being.’”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOn sabbatical in Italy, she had the good fortune to meet Bianca Tarozzi, Professor Emerita, the University of Verona, who translated a portion of this later book into Italian for \u003cem\u003ePoesia.\u003c\/em\u003e Foster is co-translator with Alan Williamson of \u003cem\u003eThe Living Theatre: Selected Poems of Bianca Tarozzi,\u003c\/em\u003e which won the Northern California Book Award for Poetry in Translation. She has received grants from New York State Creative Artists Public Service Foundation, MacDowell, Saint Lawrence and Lannan Foundations and was Poet-in-Residence at Tulane University. Her passion is ballroom dancing, and, in particular, ballroom dancing in Tuscany.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePaperback: 78 pages\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublisher: Kelsay Books (January 1, 2023)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kelsay Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43495337132093,"sku":"alv1787286800614","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0623\/1470\/9053\/files\/your-form-became-my-own_1.jpg?v=1787286805","url":"https:\/\/ownstyleboutique.shop\/products\/your-form-became-my-own","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}