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The opening quotation from Dana Gioia defines the book's understanding of consciousness: \"Human consciousness is an unstable republic of conflicting impulses, instincts, and appetites in perpetual flux.\" COLLISIONS is an attempt to honor that notion of the chaos of consciousness while at the same time giving the reader an experience of thought and feeling that is not so chaotic that it is overwhelming. It tries to tell the truth about the mind in a way that feels if not comfortable at least familiar: we too have felt that fire, that movement. The book asserts that the fundamental condition of poetry is words in motion, constantly dis\/uncovering perceptions of the new. \"Ecstasy seems to be linked to the instability of language.\" Familiar with the many forms of traditional poetry and comfortable with the making of new forms, Foley conceives of every living poet as an Orpheus attempting to rescue poetry-as-Eurydice. If poetry to some extent reveals the ramifications of the poet's identity, it does so in the context of the coruscations of words whose flashes move beyond identity into something more. The book deliberately plunges us into mystery as everything collides with everything else. Foley writes to a fellow poet, \"'Home' is where you belong but 'home' isn't anywhere: it is always a profound absence: 'sound, noise that reaches for the ever-receding light.' I think that, underneath all the 'influences,' is this deep longing which is always asserted and always denied.\" Baudelaire: \"heaven or hell who cares \/ In the depths of the unknown to find something new.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":50630708986129,"sku":"NGR9781680533354","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51046272074001,"sku":"NIN9781680533354","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52615494828305,"sku":"NLS9781680533354","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1680533355.jpg?v=1763474278"},{"product_id":"visions-affiliations-book-jack-foley-9781613640685","title":"Visions \u0026 Affiliations","description":"From about 1930 on, a conspiracy of bad poetry has been as carefully organized as the Communist Party, and today controls most channels of publication except the littlest of the little magazines.We disaffiliate. -Kenneth Rexroth, 1957 Visions \u0026amp; Affiliations: A California Literary Time Line-Poets \u0026amp; Poetry 1940-2005 is a chronoencyclopedia of a scene that stretches over sixty-five years. People, ideas, and stories appear, disappear, and reappear as the second half of the century moves forward. Poetry is a major element in this kaleidoscopic California scene. It is argued about, dismissed, renewed, denounced in fury, asserted as divine, criticized as pornographic. Poetry is as Western as the Sierra foothills, and the questions raised here go to its very heart. Beginning with the publication of Kenneth Rexroth's first book, this all-encompassing history-as-collage plunges us forward into the 21st Century. California authors keep generating massive anthologies in an attempt to tame the chaos of California, to pretend it isn't there. Yet there it is-staring them in the face like a great bear, alive, hungry and more than a little dangerous. 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