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, Foley Jack

Автор: Foley, Jack
Название: Tiger & other tales
ISBN: 1944697136 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781944697136
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Описание: Fiction. Jack Foley's autobiography begins, What is a life but stories? The stories collected here are not his life but a fantastic consciousness in which he is as lost as anyone. Foley writes what he does not know; he writes what he can imagine. The dead sprout up here as easily as leaves of grass.

Stylistically the stories range widely--some are comic, some bring tears. All manifest the strangeness and the power of poetry, plunging us into the enigma of the human heart.

Автор: Jack Foley
Название: When Sleep Comes: Shillelagh Songs
ISBN: 1944697861 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781944697860
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Описание: In his new poetry collection, Jack Foley revels in a wild and varied display bringing together many styles and preoccupations, from the depths of grief to love to the heights where light has its source. We might turn the title into a question: When sleep comes, can light be far behind? The diversity of forms and themes in this collection amply demonstrate Foleys concept of mind as being not one but multiple, a dark cinematic chamber peopled with many voices and masks. Foley is our contemporary vaudeville performer, tap dancing on his own stage and singing in multiple voices with many a nod and shake to poets alive and dead.

Автор: Foley Jack
Название: The Dancer and the Dance: A Book of Distinctions
ISBN: 1597090948 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781597090940
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Описание: Jack Foley s 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 voices --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 Foley s 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