Abstract:
Sojourner gathers stories, poems, experiments, and prose poems from Lee Foust’s 25 years of traveling, studying, and living in various US and European cities. The multiform texts engage the mysteries of our experience of place, our sense of belonging, and our desire to escape into unknown territories. Sojourner’s many voices include teenagers in obscure California suburbs, San Francisco apartment hunters, European backpackers, junkies, and refugees, mourners in Texas, revolutionaries in Brooklyn, dreaming Manhattan barflies, Arctic lovers, Vesuvian trash bags, a re-figuration of Poe’s Fortunato, Tuscan expatriates lost in summertime reveries, and the Mad Hatnik.