Foley, Jack (Ferlinghetti, Lawrence)

Foley's Books: California Rebels, Beats & Radicals

Oakland, CA: Pantograph Press, 2000. First Edition. Inscribed, signed, and dated by Jack Foley to Lawrence Ferlinghetti. “Jack Foley has lived in the Bay Area for nearly four decades, and his insights grow from personal involvement as well as active research. Literary criticism is rarely so intellectually wide-ranging, imaginatively suggestive, or unabashedly personal. Perhaps no recent writer has done more than Foley to foster a serious and informed critical conversation about West Coast literature…For the first time readers – especially those outside the Bay area – will have the opportunity to see the work of one of the most thought-provoking and truly iconoclastic critics now active.” (Dana Gioia, from back cover. Many of the pieces within this volume originally appeared as reviews or interviews in the online magazine The Alsop Review as part of a column written by the American poet of the San Francisco Renaissance, Jack Foley (b. 1940). From the collection of the late, great Lawrence Ferlinghetti, (1919-2021) Canonical poet & founder of City Lights Books, publisher of many Beat Generation writers. Signed, dated and dedicated at title page by author to Ferlinghetti: “For Lawrence ~ | rebel, beat, radical & more | Jack Foley | 4/5/2000.” Large format softcover, first edition, first printing, though neither explicated as such on copyright page. In very fine condition with only mild rubbing to front, back covers and spine and very minor creasing to corners of same. Interior very fine, appearing substantially mint. Very Fine. [Item #7957]

Price: $45.00