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A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads - A Reminiscence and a Presentation of the Various Forms I Have Employed... A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads - A Reminiscence and a Presentation of the Various Forms I Have Employed Throughout My Long, Long Life (Hardcover)
Jack Foley
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R1,391 Discovery Miles 13 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

The Light of Evening - A Brief Life of Jack Foley (Hardcover): Jack Foley The Light of Evening - A Brief Life of Jack Foley (Hardcover)
Jack Foley
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R1,157 R925 Discovery Miles 9 250 Save R232 (20%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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 since his birth in New Jersey in 1940. Foley has spent his life in the pursuit of ways to continue writing poetry in a world in which the status of poetry has been seriously diminished. 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. His exciting "choruses" - duets performed with his late wife Adelle - established him as a unique presenter of poetry in an area in which poets abound. Along with his creative work, Foley studied at Cornell with the brilliant and notorious deconstructionist critic Paul de Man. He lived through the 1960s in and around Berkeley, California, attending the university at the height of the Free Speech Movement. Following on the heels of Kenneth Rexroth, he has presented poetry on KPFA-FM, Berkeley's radical radio station, for over thirty years. He produced a 1300-page history of Californian poetry from 1940 to 2005 that has been called "an oddball masterpiece ... the first adequate account of California's complex and contradictory literary life." At eighty, Foley looks back at a life in which he managed to maintain himself as a contrarian poet who never resorted to the academy for sustenance and who never courted fame from the East Coast literary hegemony. The Light of Evening is the story of a complex, always-in-motion public intellectual for whom poetry was first, last, and always.

A Backward Glance O'Er Travel'd Roads - A Reminiscence and a Presentation of the Various Forms I Have Employed... A Backward Glance O'Er Travel'd Roads - A Reminiscence and a Presentation of the Various Forms I Have Employed Throughout My Long, Long Life (Paperback)
Jack Foley
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R879 Discovery Miles 8 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Light of Evening - A Brief Life of Jack Foley (Paperback): Jack Foley The Light of Evening - A Brief Life of Jack Foley (Paperback)
Jack Foley
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R863 Discovery Miles 8 630 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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 since his birth in New Jersey in 1940. Foley has spent his life in the pursuit of ways to continue writing poetry in a world in which the status of poetry has been seriously diminished. 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. His exciting "choruses" - duets performed with his late wife Adelle - established him as a unique presenter of poetry in an area in which poets abound. Along with his creative work, Foley studied at Cornell with the brilliant and notorious deconstructionist critic Paul de Man. He lived through the 1960s in and around Berkeley, California, attending the university at the height of the Free Speech Movement. Following on the heels of Kenneth Rexroth, he has presented poetry on KPFA-FM, Berkeley's radical radio station, for over thirty years. He produced a 1300-page history of Californian poetry from 1940 to 2005 that has been called "an oddball masterpiece ... the first adequate account of California's complex and contradictory literary life." At eighty, Foley looks back at a life in which he managed to maintain himself as a contrarian poet who never resorted to the academy for sustenance and who never courted fame from the East Coast literary hegemony. The Light of Evening is the story of a complex, always-in-motion public intellectual for whom poetry was first, last, and always.

All - A James Broughton Reader (Paperback): James Broughton All - A James Broughton Reader (Paperback)
James Broughton; Edited by Jack Foley
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R521 Discovery Miles 5 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

n a life that stretched from 1913 to 1999 James Broughton witnessed and commented on the twentieth century from the point of view of an outsider. In a time aghast at its own horrors, Broughton championed laughter. He was a poet, not of the ivory tower but of the innovative street, a playful, urban voice with the notion that a poet could change the world. In a rational century, he asserted mystery. All: A James Broughton Reader collects the range of this acclaimed poet and filmmaker.

Those Were the Times (Paperback): Jack Foley Those Were the Times (Paperback)
Jack Foley; Edited by Michael Ray King
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R404 Discovery Miles 4 040 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Those Were the Times takes the reader back into another era when growing up meant children experienced a lot of hands-on life skills. Follow Jack Foley as he learns that alligators are not necessarily creatures to tangle with and wild hog hunting sometimes goes awry. The stories of Jack Foley, set in the beautiful Greater Gulf Hammock region of the Florida, give the reader a special peek back to a simpler day. You will enjoy the personable style of storytelling which only Jack Foley delivers with ease. Most amazing of all is the fact that these stories really happened. Sit back, get comfortable, and enjoy your trip back to the 1930's. Jack will take you through some of the high - and low - points of his life during his teenage years. The stories will move you. They will make you laugh. In the end, you will walk away with a cherished piece of Americana that will live in your heart for years to come.

The Tiger & Other Tales (Paperback): Jack Foley The Tiger & Other Tales (Paperback)
Jack Foley
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R415 R287 Discovery Miles 2 870 Save R128 (31%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Dancer and the Dance: A Book of Distinctions - A Book of Distinctions (Paperback): Jack Foley The Dancer and the Dance: A Book of Distinctions - A Book of Distinctions (Paperback)
Jack Foley
R526 R450 Discovery Miles 4 500 Save R76 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Jack FoleyÆs The Dancer and the Dance: A Book of Distinctions deliberately challenges many conventional ways of thinking about poetry. Though extremely scholarly and aware of the \u201ctradition,\u201d Foley offers readings rooted in a consciousness which is simultaneously non academic and open to the new. \u201cThe self of this book,\u201d he writes, \u201cis not a unity but a multiplicity. Many people would agree with this idea of selfhood—the self as a \u2018multiplicity of voicesÆ—but clarification is still required as to how the concept of the self as multiplicity affects literary criticism, how it affects our actual reading of poems. It may be that the self we postulate as we read a poem contradicts the self we experience in the world; it is also possible that familiar poems may be experienced anew by being read in the light of multiplicity.\u201d FoleyÆs explorations lead him into radically new readings of \u201ccanonic\u201d work by poets such as Keats, Yeats and Mallarm\u00e9, into the world of opera, free jazz, New Formalism, and the writing of song lyrics, into \u201cethnic\u201d literature, theater, and finally into problems of \u201cspoken word\u201d and \u201cslam poetry.\u201d Throughout, his point of view, initially controversial, becomes finally compelling. \u201cIt is possible,\u201d he says quietly about the whole of Western culture, \u201cthat Plato was wrong, and that we must make an effort to think in a different way if we are to encounter reality at all.\u201d

Easter Poems - And coming out of the tombs after his resurrection, came into the holy city, and appeared to many. (Paperback):... Easter Poems - And coming out of the tombs after his resurrection, came into the holy city, and appeared to many. (Paperback)
Jack Foley, Malgorzata Borzeszkowska, Shajil Anthru
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R244 Discovery Miles 2 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
When Sleep Comes - Shillelagh Songs (Paperback): Jack Foley When Sleep Comes - Shillelagh Songs (Paperback)
Jack Foley
R492 Discovery Miles 4 920 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Grief Songs (Paperback): Jack Foley Grief Songs (Paperback)
Jack Foley
R435 R299 Discovery Miles 2 990 Save R136 (31%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Visions & Affiliations - A California Literary Time Line Part Two (Paperback): Jack Foley Visions & Affiliations - A California Literary Time Line Part Two (Paperback)
Jack Foley
R1,412 R1,179 Discovery Miles 11 790 Save R233 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Literary Nonficton. Poetry History & Criticism. California Studies. VISIONS & AFFILIATIONS: A CALIFORNIA TIMELINE 1980-2005 is the second of a two-volume chronoencyclopedia of a scene that stretches over sixty-five years. People, ideas, and stories appear, disappear, and reappear as the second half of the century moves forward. Poetry is a major element in this kaleidoscopic California scene. It is argued about, dismissed, renewed, denounced in fury, asserted as divine, criticized as pornographic. Poetry is as Western as the Sierra foothills, and the questions raised here go to its very heart. Beginning with the publication of Kenneth Rexroth's first book, this all-encompassing history-as-collage plunges us forward into the 21st Century. California authors keep generating massive anthologies in an attempt to tame the chaos of California, to pretend it isn't there. Yet there it is--staring them in the face like a great bear, alive, hungry and more than a little dangerous.

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