Creative Death, an octogenarian’s wordshop, by Jack Foley

ISBN #978-1-891272-15-8

“Jack Foley is doing great things in articulating the poetic consciousness of San Francisco.”
–Lawrence Ferlinghetti, “Cover to Cover,” KPFA-FM radio.

“I’ve been following Jack Foley’s work for many years now…What he gives us here, with a nod to Rilke & others, is his own add-on to an ancient orphic poetry of love and death.”
–Jerome Rothenberg, poet, author of the Technicians of the Sacred

“To read this books is to enter the  mind of a poet who embodies living history. His intellect is not less formidable than ever, while his accumulated knowledge and wisdom are at their peak.”  –Deborah Bachels Schmidt, poet

“There is no one alive who has done more for California poetry than Jack Foley. He is the most important living person for California poetry…the leading man of letters of California [though] Jack remains scandalously underrecognized.”
–Dana Gioia, poet and author of Can Poetry Matter?