A Backward Glance O’er Travel’d Roads: A Reminiscence and a Presentation of the Various Forms I Have Employed Throughout My Long, Long Life

California poet Jack Foley has been called ""a brilliant critic and a unique poet whose work energetically records the disintegration of the patriarchy"" and a writer of ""genuinely avant-garde poetry."" This book is a spiritual history of Foley, an attempt to show, as Wordsworth put it, ""the growth of a poet's mind.