These poems whisk us across worlds, around the globe, from the ideal to the football field, and through myriads of philosophical stances and visions with limitless energy and depth. Scenes from a Rain Country is a tour of connections and of the sublime. I cannot imagine spending time with these poems and not feeling better for having read them. Jack B. Bedell, Poet Laureate, State of Louisiana, 2017-2019, and author of Color All Maps New Scenes from a Rain Country transports the reader from rural Louisiana pastorals to the outermost tendrils of the Tarantula Nebula. Each of Foret’s finely crafted poems crackles with incantatory power and an unrivaled attention to detail. Deer roam about, mouths stuffed with "diamond jelly," while "lions are lost / in a lunch of someone else's lungs" and dragonflies pause "to sip gasoline." Foret's poetic garden is dark, fecund, and teeming with violence, yet above these worldly concerns there's a recurring call for love and clemency. Nickalus Rupert, author of Bosses of Light and Sound You’ll want to savor every line. The sounds and images in these poems are electric. These poems are why I read poetry. Foret explores language and form with jubilation, momentum, and grace. Olivia Clare Friedman, author of The 26-Hour Day, Disasters in the First World, and Here Lies