BIBFRAME Work

Title

Scenes from a rain country

Type

• Monograph
• Text

Contribution

• Foret, Chad (author )

Subject

• Life (FAST)
• Families (FAST)
• Familles--Poésie (RVM)
• Nature (FAST)
• Quakers (FAST)
• Louisiane--Poésie (RVM)
• 2000-2099 (FAST)
• Quakers--Poésie (RVM)
• Nature--Poésie (RVM)

Genre Form

• Poetry (FAST)
• poetry (AAT)
• Poetry (LCGFT)
• Poésie (RVMGF)

Language

• eng

Classification

• DDC: 811.6
• LCC: PS3606.O74749 S34 2022 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: uba)

Content

• text

Note

William Faulkner-William Wisdom Award grand prize winner, 2020.

Summary

"Scenes from a Rain Country, Chad Foret's first book of poetry, is a rich, multi-formed collection that meditates on life, death, and everything in between. On one level, Foret's world is down-to-earth, full of movie houses, family, crawfish boils, small Louisiana towns, fish guts, favorite beagles, and hurricanes. But it is also hallucinatory, haunted first by flowers and hummingbirds, then by angels, ghosts, dreams and nightmares that lead readers from the real world deep into an unconscious realm guarded mostly by poets and other artists. Foret's language is thick, sometimes intentionally innovative and puzzling, with lines that stop readers cold, then burst like nebula into blazing epiphanies. "How lucky they were to live," the culminating line of one poem reads, and that might summarize the underlying feeling for readers of this collection, which never blinks at the world and as a result makes everything--whether dark or light--come alive in words for an instant.--Dr. Richard Louth, Director of Southeastern Louisiana Writing Project." -- From author's website.

Authorized Access Point

Foret, Chad. Scenes from a rain country

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11T20:11:21.017064+00:00
• Agent: cbc
• Status: c
• Derived from: 22552345

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11
• Cataloger id: Unknown
• Description level: bibframe-2-6-0
• Description language: eng
• Description authentication: pcc