A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads

<p><span style=color: rgba(102 102 102 1)>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. His collaborative multimedia poetry performances are both seminal and shamanic evolving from the linguistic musical tradition of the original San Francisco Beat poets and extending their eye ear and voice of penetrating clarity into a modern mythology. </span><em style=color: rgba(102 102 102 1)>A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads</em><span style=color: rgba(102 102 102 1)> - a title from Walt Whitman - is a spiritual history an attempt to show as Wordsworth put it many years ago the growth of a poet's mind. Where did I begin? What forces moved me in what directions? What is the result of the effort to create art in a medium that is currently simultaneously respected misunderstood and discredited? What kind of poetry is possible in a dark time? </span><em style=color: rgba(102 102 102 1)>A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads</em><span style=color: rgba(102 102 102 1)> throws light not only on Foley's life and work but also on the history of twentieth-century poetry and on the efforts successes and failures of Modernism.</span></p>