Books by Jack Foley

California poet Jack Foley has been called ""a brilliant critic and a unique poet whose work energetically records the disintegration of the patriarchy"" and a writer of ""genuinely avant-garde poetry."" This book is a spiritual history of Foley, an attempt to show, as Wordsworth put it, ""the growth of a poet's mind.

Jack Foley has been prominent in the San Francisco Bay Area poetry scene since the mid-1980s. The Light of Evening traces the arc of his life. This candid autobiography offers a portrait of an artist who has continued to produce experimental as well as traditional work and who created theoretical underpinnings for that work.