COLLISIONS: Violences by Jack Foley by Jack Foley Hardcover Book

Description: COLLISIONS by Jack Foley Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description Octogenarian Jack Foleys COLLISIONS is a book at play in the forests of the mind. The opening quotation from Dana Gioia defines the books understanding of consciousness: ""Human consciousness is an unstable republic of conflicting impulses, instincts, and appetites in perpetual flux." Publisher Description Octogenarian Jack Foleys COLLISIONS is a book at play in the forests of the mind. The opening quotation from Dana Gioia defines the books understanding of consciousness: "Human consciousness is an unstable republic of conflicting impulses, instincts, and appetites in perpetual flux." COLLISIONS is an attempt to honor that notion of the chaos of consciousness while at the same time giving the reader an experience of thought and feeling that is not so chaotic that it is overwhelming. It tries to tell the truth about the mind in a way that feels if not comfortable at least familiar: we too have felt that fire, that movement. The book asserts that the fundamental condition of poetry is words in motion, constantly dis/uncovering perceptions of the new. "Ecstasy seems to be linked to the instability of language." Familiar with the many forms of traditional poetry and comfortable with the making of new forms, Foley conceives of every living poet as an Orpheus attempting to rescue poetry-as-Eurydice. If poetry to some extent reveals the ramifications of the poets identity, it does so in the context of the coruscations of words whose flashes move beyond identity into something more. The book deliberately plunges us into mystery as everything collides with everything else. Foley writes to a fellow poet, "Home is where you belong but home isnt anywhere: it is always a profound absence: sound, noise that reaches for the ever-receding light. I think that, underneath all the influences, is this deep longing which is always asserted and always denied." Baudelaire: "heaven or hell who cares / In the depths of the unknown to find something new. Author Biography San Francisco Bay-area poet Jack Foley has published eighteen books of poetry, five books of criticism, a book of stories, and a 1300-page "chronoencyclopedia," Visions & Affiliations: California Poetry 1940-2005. With his late wife, Adelle, he became known for his multi-voiced "choruses," a practice he has continued with his new life partner, Sangye Land. He has presented poetry on Berkeley, California radio station KPFA regularly since 1988 and is a host of KPFAs literary program, "Cover to Cover." He has received two Lifetime Achievement Awards, one from Marquis Whos Who and one from the Berkeley Poetry Festival. The city of Berkeley declared June 5, 2010 "Jack Foley Day" in Berkeley. In addition, he is the first recipient of the K.M. Anthru International Literary Prize from the Kerala, India-based magazine, LITTERATEUR RW. His most recent books are Grief Songs, a book dealing with his sorrow at his wifes death; When Sleep Comes: Shillelagh Songs, poems ranging from traditional to experimental verse; Duet of Polygon, a collaboration with Japanese poet Maki Starfield; and the companion volumes, The Light of Evening, a brief autobiography, and A Backward Glance Oer Traveld Roads, a psychobiography dealing with "the growth of a poets mind," and Creative Death, a book of poems. In 2019, poets/scholars Dana Gioia and Peter Whitfield published Jack Foleys Unmanageable Masterpiece—a book of essays discussing Visions & Affiliations. Poet Olchar E. Lindsann writes, "Jack Foleys constantly evolving and exploratory writing has been a mainstay of the American avant-garde for many decades, and his detailed histories of California poetic communities demonstrate an engaged poetic historiography." In 1994 Lawrence Ferlinghetti remarked at the conclusion of Jacks radio interview with him, "Jack Foley is doing great things in articulating the poetic consciousness of San Francisco. Details ISBN 1680533355 ISBN-13 9781680533354 Title COLLISIONS Author Jack Foley Format Hardcover Year 2024 Pages 135 Publisher Academica Press GE_Item_ID:160441168; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. 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