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Poetry. "Jack Foley is our firebrand experimentalist and he holds his torch high so the reader can have more light. This book makes unique flares and shadows in profound and vivid ways"—Michael McClure.
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About the author: Jack Foley is a poet and critic living in the San Francisco Bay area. Foley's radio show, "Cover to Cover," is heard every Wednesday at 3:00 p.m. on Berkeley station KPFA and is available at the KPFA web site; his column, "Foley's Books," appears in the online magazine The Alsop Review. His poetry books include Letters/Lights--Words for Adelle; Gershwin; EXILES; ADRIFT (nominated for a Northern California Book Reviewers Award); Greatest Hits 1974-2003; Ash on an Old Man's Sleeve; and "A Disordered City," chapbook included in AHADADA READER 3. His books of criticism include the companion volumes, O POWERFUL WESTERN STAR: POETRY & ART IN CALIFORNIA (winner of the Artists Embassy Literary/Cultural Award 1998-2000) and FOLEY'S BOOKS: CALIFORNIA REBELS, BEATS, AND RADICALS as well as The Dancer and the Dance: A Book of Distinctions. He is well known for his poetry performances with his wife, Adelle, also a poet. In June 2010, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from The Berkeley Poetry Festival.
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- PublisherPantograph Press
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 1880766124
- ISBN 13 9781880766125
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages104
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Book Description Paperback. [105]., 8.5x11 inches, poems, notes, illustrations, very good first edition in trade paper pictorial wraps. The poet has signed his title page twice with a presentation inscription to "Larry and Justine" (the Fixels). Foley a major figure in San Francisco poetry in this era, and a KPFA radio show host. On back cover Michael McClure calls him "our firebrand experimentalist" -- referring to Foley's typography, spacing, and presumably content. Seller Inventory # 208421
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. b/w Illustration and Music Notation (illustrator). First Edition. In pictorial wraps, 4to, 103pp. Includes extremely scarce Cd of Poems from Exiles compiled by Foley. Signed & Inscribed By the Author to Venice West poet John Thomas and his wife Philomene Long. Laid in is an excerpted appearance of selections from Exiles in the Taproot review. (offsetting to inside cover from review laid in). Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Signed & Inscribed By Author. Book. Seller Inventory # 0774829
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