Pharmaka

Pharmaka: Poems by G. M. Foster completed in 2008. Pharmaka (to us chemicals and drugs) was to the ancient Greeks a person who was invested with the crimes and pollution of a community and then expelled. Thus, the Pharmaka healed the city by bearing the burden for all. "These poems are my pharmacopoeia. Some represent encounters in the flesh, so to speak; others took place in my imagination; all have been important to me. They haunt me, and in a sense I haunt them." G. M. Foster (1941-2008) began writing poetry in the mid-1950s and published in many magazines. An active participant in the jazz/poetry scene, Foster worked with fine musicians.

• | Author: Athena Foster
• | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Feb 24, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 94 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Poetry
• | ISBN-10: 1522821600
• | ISBN-13: 9781522821601