Jack FoleyAEs The Dancer and the Dance: A Book of Distinctions deliberately challenges many conventional ways of thinking about poetry. Though extremely scholarly and aware of the u201ctradition, u201d Foley offers readings rooted in a consciousness which is simultaneously non academic and open to the new. u201cThe self of this book, u201d he writes, u201cis not a unity but a multiplicity. Many people would agree with this idea of selfhood--the self as a u2018multiplicity of voicesAE--but clarification is still required as to how the concept of the self as multiplicity affects literary...

n a life that stretched from 1913 to 1999 James Broughton witnessed and commented on the twentieth century from the point of view of an outsider. In a time aghast at its own horrors, Broughton championed laughter. He was a poet, not of the ivory tower but of the innovative street, a playful, urban voice with the notion that a poet could change the world. In a rational century, he asserted mystery. All: A James Broughton Reader collects the range of this acclaimed poet and filmmaker.