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Praise for The Unexploded Ordnance Bin

“ The ticking IS the bomb,” Nick Flynn says, and the idea of events from our genetic, cultural, historic, and experienced past—coiled and waiting to explode in our lives—lies at the core of this Rebecca Foust’s new collection, winner of the 2018 Swan Scythe Press Chapbook Award. The Unexploded Ordnance Bin presents new poems that ignite a long, sparking fuse about contemporary culture, society, and political events now dividing family, community, and country."

— Left Coast Writers

About Rebecca Foust

Rebecca Foust’s books include The Unexploded Ordnance Bin winner of the 2018 Swan Scythe Press Chapbook Award and Paradise Drive, winner of the Press 53 Award for Poetry and reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement. Recognitions include the Cavafy and James Hearst Prizes (Poetry), the Lascaux and American Literary Review Prizes (Fiction), the Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Prize, and fellowships from The Frost Place, Hedgebrook, MacDowell, and Sewanee. New work is in Alaska Quarterly Review, The Hudson Review, The Massachusetts Review, Southern Review, Zyzzyva, and elsewhere. Foust was Marin County Poet Laureate in 2017-19 and works as Poetry Editor for Women’s Voices for Change and as an assistant Editor for Narrative Magazine.