Across the Blood Red Plain in Bloomington, MN

Born on a Lakota Sioux reservation, Dennis Lee Foster is the author of over 60 books, including three bestsellers, nine book-club selections, and more than 200 magazine features. His poems explore the human condition in all its facets, light and dark, buoyant and despairing, rational and emotional. At once deeply personal and yet universal, his reflections, musings, and chronicles of life from birth to death impart a plethora of emotions, from tenderness to outrage, but also an intellectual grasp and appreciation of "the impossible fortune of having existed at all." His poems both celebrate and commiserate, embrace and embroil, tantalize and deny, but always and in all ways depict what it is to be human.