Ha Jin’s Poetry: The Language of Betrayal

A Review of A Distant Center (Copper Canyon Press, 2018)
Jack Foley

Jack Foley: Review of Ha Jin's Poetry


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Jack Foley has published fifteen books of poetry, five books of criticism, a book of stories, and a two-volume, 3,000-page “chronoencyclopedia,” Visions & Affiliations: California Poetry 1940-2005. His recent publications include EYES (selected poems); The Tiger & Other Tales, a book of stories; Riverrun, a book of experimental poetry; and Grief Songs. When Sleep Comes: Shillelagh Songs, a book of poems, is forthcoming, as is a book edited by California Poet Laureate Dana Gioia commenting on and celebrating Visions & Affiliations. He has received Lifetime Achievement Awards from Marquis Who’s Who and the Berkeley Poetry Festival.