Bücher von Jack Foley

Jack Foleys Gedichte sind poetische Texte eines Dichters der US-amerikanischen Beat Szene der Westküste, der sich zu einem Experimentierer entwickelte. Der Titel des Gedichtbands ist auch Titel eines langen Gedichts, das ebenso wie ein anderes Gedicht dieses Bands an Foleys irische Wurzeln denken läßt. Andere Gedichte sind Menschen wie dem Poeten Michael McClure und dem Fotografen Robert Fisher gewidmet. Das letzte Gedicht des Bands gilt nicht von ungefähr Walt Whitman...Jack Foley's poems are poetic texts by a poet of the US West Coast beat scene who became an experimenter. The title of the poetry volume is also the title of a long poem, which, like another poem in this volume, evokes Foley's Irish roots. Other poems are dedicated to people like the poet Michael McClure and the photographer Robert Fisher. It is no coincidence that the last poem in the volume is dedicated to Walt Whitman...

California poet Jack Foley has been called "a brilliant critic and a unique poet whose work energetically records the disintegration of the patriarchy" and a writer of "genuinely avant-garde poetry." His collaborative, multimedia poetry performances are both seminal and shamanic, evolving from the linguistic musical tradition of the original San Francisco Beat poets and extending their eye, ear and voice of penetrating clarity into a modern mythology. "A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads" - a title from Walt Whitman - is a spiritual history, an attempt to show, as Wordsworth put it many years ago, "the growth of a poet's mind." Where did I begin? What forces moved me in what directions? What is the result of the effort to create art in a medium that is currently simultaneously respected, misunderstood, and discredited? What kind of poetry is possible in a dark time? "A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads" throws light not only on Foley's life and work, but also on the history of twentieth-century poetry, and on the efforts, successes, and failures of Modernism.¿

Jack Foley has been prominent in the San Francisco Bay Area poetry scene since the mid-1980s. The Light of Evening traces the arc of his life. This candid autobiography offers a portrait of an artist who has continued to produce experimental as well as traditional work and who created theoretical underpinnings for that work.