Jack Foley?s The Dancer and the Dance: A Book of Distinctions deliberately challenges many conventional ways of thinking about poetry. Though extremely scholarly and aware of the "tradition," Foley offers readings rooted in a consciousness which is simultaneously non academic and open to the new. "The self of this book," he writes, "is not a unity but a multiplicity. Many people would agree with this idea of selfhood--the self as a 'multiplicity of...