| 词条 | Jack Foley (poet) |
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Jack Foley is an American poet living in Oakland, California. BiographyJohn Wayne Harold Foley was born August 9, 1940 in Neptune, New Jersey, raised in Port Chester, New York, and educated at Cornell University and the University of California at Berkeley. Foley’s career as a poet is unique because it has always involved performance, specifically the presentation of “multivoiced” pieces written by Foley but performed by both Foley and his late wife Adelle Foley (1940-2016). These pieces often feature conflicting, simultaneous voices whose interrelationships reflect Foley’s often-stated belief that “some parts of the mind don’t know what other parts are doing.” Foley met Adelle in November, 1960 while he was attending Cornell and she was attending Goucher College in Maryland. They married in December, 1961; the couple had one child, Sean, born in 1974. The Foleys moved to California in 1963 so that he could attend UC Berkeley and she could work at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Foley received an MA in English Literature at UC Berkeley and published several poems and articles, but by 1974, influenced by Charles Olson's Maximus Poems, he had dropped out of graduate school to pursue a career as a poet and writer. His first poetry reading, in which he read jointly with Adelle, was in June, 1985. Since 1987, Foley has published 15 books of poetry, 5 books of criticism, a book of stories, and a two-volume “chronoencyclopedia,” Visions & Affiliations: California Poetry 1940-2005. In 2010 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Berkeley Poetry Festival, and June 5th, 2010 was designated Jack Foley Day in Berkeley, California. In 2018 he became the recipient of the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. This is his feature as it appears on the Lifetime Achievers website: https://wwlifetimeachievement.com/2018/09/26/jack-foley/?contact-form-id=428069&contact-form-sent=430430&contact-form-hash=184e4d9da75354ec1a6db97761bfb1e84d9e5f46&_wpnonce=8135b334c0. His poetry books often include accompanying CDs or cassette tapes on which Foley and Adelle perform his work. After Adelle's death in 2016 Foley has found a new love and performance partner in Sangye Land, daughter of poet Julie Rogers and stepdaughter of poet David Meltzer. Since 1988, Foley has also hosted a show of interviews and poetry presentations on Berkeley radio station KPFA. Jake Berry’s in-depth essay on Jack Foley’s books, Grief Songs, Riverrun, and The Tiger & Other Tales is up on OTOLITHS A Magazine of Many E Things: https://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2018/06/jake-berry.html. Works
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