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No One Leaves the World Unhurt

Name: No One Leaves the World Unhurt
ISBN: 9781938769788

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Series: 1 of 7
Duration: 1H 0min
Language: English
Format
Category: Lyric Poetry & Drama

John Foy’s newest collection is a tour de force of formal poetry, offering a blend of wit, cleverness, and deftness.

Working in the lineage of poets like Billy Collins, Robert Frost, Frank O’Hara, W. H. Auden, and Elizabeth Bishop, Foy probes everyday experiences to generate compassionate, clever, and deeply knowing verse. Foy satirizes various elements of contemporary society, reflecting on war, wandering through the Museum of Sex in New York with his wife, and plucking apart idiomatic speech, which he breaks down, saying “It is what it is. / It’s not what it might have been.” Influenced by pop art and fine art and his New York home, which forms the backdrop of many of these poems, Foy’s vibrant collection is simultaneously philosophical, whimsical, serious, and searching.

Release date

Audiobook: 26 August 2025
Ebook: 10 February 2021