The light of evening :: a brief life of Jack Foley

Jack Foley has played a major role in the San Francisco Bay Area poetry scene since the mid 1980s. The Light of Evening traces the arc of his life since his birth in New Jersey in 1940. Foley has spent his life in the pursuit of ways in which he might continue to write poetry in a world in which the status of poetry has been seriously diminished. This book offers a portrait of an artist who has continued to produce experimental as well as traditional work and who created theoretical underpi...