Autumn Beguiles the Fatalist - Softcover

Foley, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0856407720 ISBN 13: 9780856407727

Publisher: Blackstaff Pr, 2006

Synopsis

A collection that culminates in a powerful sequence of poems that looks at age, mortality, loss, failure, disappointment, and envy with unflinching honesty.

About this title

About the Author:

MICHAEL FOLEY was born in Derry in 1947. He was joint editor of the Honest Ulsterman from 1970 to 1971 and contributed a regular satirical column, 'The Wrassler', to Fortnight magazine throughout the early 1970s. His first collection of poetry, True Life Love Stories, was published by Blackstaff Press in 1976, followed by The GO Situation in 1982 and Insomnia in the Afternoon in 1994. He has also published four novels and a collection of translations of French poetry. Michael Foley currently lives in London where he lectures in Information Technology at the University of Westminster.

From Booklist:

Northern Irishman Foley is a wonder. One of the most linguistically inventive poets of his country, he is still entirely approachable by those whose daily poetry reading seldom to never resorts to, say, John Ashbery. With a long line and a breakneck pace, Foley presents the speedy modern world in all its ambivalent glory. His occasional vulgarity is not only inoffensive but, propelled by mournful trochees, poignant: "Did Dante ever put the wood to Beatrice?" asks a student, to which the weary poet replies, "Dante scarcely met Beatrice, much less put the wood." The chance to laugh aloud while simultaneously gasping in appreciation is rare, but Foley affords it, particularly in his poems about America, such as when he describes "Not just meals, toilet bowls bigger . . and more full of water. Every cup runneth over / and is filled again free. If I had time for sex, my ejaculate would be kingsize. . . . Here more of everything except silence." Although not widely known in America, Foley deserves to be. Patricia Monaghan
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About this edition

• Publisher: Blackstaff Pr
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0856407720
• ISBN 13: 9780856407727
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 137