Today’s show is the first half of an interview with poet Ivan Argüelles. Host Jack Foley wrote this about Argüelles’ remarkable work: These poems are not for the faint of feeling or the faint of intellect, but they are for those who value poetry, literature, the world: “to hold in your hand / a distaff and by your side a harp to sing the lonely nights / in the labyrinth of sleep….”


Cover to Cover with Jack Foley

Cover to Cover with Jack Foley – July 11, 2018: From a Syrian Journal

Work that was originally scheduled for the July 4 program. Responding to the Muslim ban, Jack wrote some poems out of his recollections of a wonderful trip he and his late wife Adelle took to Syria in 2003. The theme of Syrians welcoming the stranger is everywhere present in these poems. Adelle also wrote about the trip, producing a sequence in 2003 and then adding to it in 2012. Adelle’s work—and her reading of it—will also be featured on the show.