Raymond FoyeRaymond Foye (b. 1957, Lowell, Mass.) studied film with Stan Brakhage at the Art Institute of Chicago and worked as a literary editor at City Lights Books, where he edited The Unknown Poe (1980) and other titles. While livin in San Francisco he edited two issues of Beatitude magazine and was a contributor to the punk zine Search and Destroy. His close friendship with the poet Bob Kaufman resulted in his editing Kaufman's final book of poems, The Ancient Rain (1981), for New Directions. In 2019, he co-edited Kaufman's Collected Poems for City Lights, for which he received the American Book Award. In 1985, he traveled with Francesco Clemente to India, where they founded Hanuman Books and published fifty books over the next ten years, including original titles by Cookie Mueller, Patti Smith, Robert Frank, and William Burroughs. From 1990 to 1995, he worked as director of exhibitions and publications at Gagosian Gallery in New York. Since 1995 he has worked as an independent curator, editor, and writer. Most recently he co-edited (with George Scrivani) Gregory Corso: The Golden Dot, Last Poems 1980-2000, for the Lithic Press. He is a contributing editor to the Brooklyn Rail and is a regular contributor to Gagosian Quarterly. Read More Read Less