Rebecca Foust is the 2014 Dartmouth Poet in Residence at the Frost Place. Her books include All That Gorgeous Pitiless Song, (2008 Many Mountains Moving Book Prize) and God, Seed (2010 Foreword Book of the Year Award), and two chapbooks (Robert Phillips Prizes in 2008 and 2009). Foust received an MFA from Warren Wilson College in 2010. Recent poems are in Hudson Review, Massachusetts Review, Sewanee Review, Southern Indiana Review, Zyzzyva, and elsewhere and fiction, essays and book reviews are in American Book Review, Chautauqua, The Rumpus, Poetry Flash, Tikkun Daily and other journals.
The story of an artist’s search for identity, Beamish Boy opens with that classic trinity of WASP dysfunction: old money, alcohol abuse, and remote parents. The author’s earliest memories conjure…