<p><span>Jack</span><span> </span><span>Foley</span><span> has been prominent in the San Francisco Bay Area poetry scene since the mid-1980s. </span><em>The Light of Evening </em><span>traces the arc of his life since his birth in New Jersey in 1940. </span><span>Foley</span><span> has spent his life in the pursuit of ways to continue writing poetry in a world in which the status of poetry has been seriously diminished. This candid autobiography offers a portrait of an artist who has continued to produce experimental as well as traditional