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Jack Foleys Gedichte sind poetische Texte eines Dichters der US-amerikanischen Beat Szene der Westküste, der sich zu einem Experimentierer entwickelte. Der Titel des Gedichtbands ist auch Titel eines langen Gedichts, das ebenso wie ein anderes Gedicht dieses Bands an Foleys irische Wurzeln denken läßt. Andere Gedichte sind Menschen wie dem Poeten Michael McClure und dem Fotografen Robert Fisher gewidmet. Das letzte Gedicht des Bands gilt nicht von ungefähr Walt Whitman...Jack Foley's poems are poetic texts by a poet of the US West Coast beat scene who became an experimenter. The title of the poetry volume is also the title of a long poem, which, like another poem in this volume, evokes Foley's Irish roots. Other poems are dedicated to people like the poet Michael McClure and the photographer Robert Fisher. It is no coincidence that the last poem in the volume is dedicated to Walt Whitman...

"Some books don't age, or age slowly. This book of poems was first offered more than two decades ago to a critic and scholar as a book about the Twentieth Century. He disliked it and called it mere "rant."Now, twenty-two or twenty-three years later, I am surprised very often by the topicality of many poems that Alicia Zukofsky wrote so quickly at the time. They are angry poems in many cases, some are tender, all are pensive, in this or that way."- Karen Wittstock