The Dancer and the Dance: A Book of Distinctions: A Book of Distinctions

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 'tradition,' Foley offers readings rooted in a consciousness which is simultaneously non academic and open to the new. 'The self of this book,' he writes, 'is not a unity but a multiplicity. Many people would agree with this idea of selfhood—the self as a 'multiplicity of voices'—but clarification is still required...