/Kids [ 9 0 R 11 0 R 13 0 R 15 0 R 17 0 R 19 0 R 21 0 R 23 0 R Fans of The Da Vinci Code . But Spicer does not want to be more explicit. The better the poem, the less responsible the poet is for it. Spicer is something new and valuable, extremely so., In a 1975 New York Times article, Richard Ellman concluded, Jack Spicers poems are always poised just on the face side of language, dipping all the way over toward that sudden flip, as if an effort were being made through feeling strongly in simple words to sneak up on the event of a man ruminating about something, or celebrating something, without rhetorical formulae, in his own beautiful inept awkwardness. Jack Spicer's most popular book is My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry. Spicer's own poetry never completely lacks sense or meaning, however. wb Spicer and Bob Dylan both re-writing "The Ranger's Command," Spicer writing The Holy Grail and Dylan "The Times, They Are a-Changing." "The order is rapidly fading And the first one now will later be last, for the times they are a-changin He felt and expressed the sense of there being an Other who dictated his poems, whom he sometimes humorously identified as a Martian. The book begins with a fictitious introduction that is presented as having been written by Garca Lorca himself, twenty years after his own death. Poems that serve as letters to the world. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. 24-29. Publisher. % Find out more about saving content to Dropbox. The text is presented as prose, in paragraphs that are fully justified, rather than left-justified as is standard for poetry. /BaseFont /GlyphLessFont Poets chasing poets, Dean Young vs. Tony Hoagland, a theory of hats, and more. The uncollected Poetry and Plays of Jack Spicer, Wesleyan University Press, to be published December 2021. In recent years, it has developed its strongest reputation /Length 333 Wilhelmus Johannes Lukkenaer. A collection of poems and essays by LGBTQ+ poets on topics and themes of identity, gender, and sexuality. Jack Spicer, unlike his contemporaries Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Gary Snyder, was a poet who disdained publishing and relished his role as a social outcast. 0000023915 00000 n We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. /DisplayDocTitle true for primarily professional audiences (e.g., in law or medicine). >> 310-340). ."A captivating historical thriller, a great spine-tingling romp through history in search of the Holy Grail. I would like to point to the real, disclose it, to make a poem that has no sound in it but the pointing of a finger. In this correspondence with Garca Lorca, Spicer plays with the meanings of the word correspond: Things do not connect; they correspond. We will keep fighting for all libraries - stand with us! Wilhelmus Johannes Lukkenaer. Tags: American Literature, Analysis of Jack Spicers Poems, Bibliography of Jack Spicers Poems, Character Study of Jack Spicers Poems, Criticism of Jack Spicers Poems, Essays of Jack Spicers Poems, Jack Spicer, Jack Spicer's Poems, Literary Criticism, Notes of Jack Spicers Poems, Plot of Jack Spicers Poems, Poetry, San Francisco Renaissance, Simple Analysis of Jack Spicers Poems, Study Guides of Jack Spicers Poems, Summary of Jack Spicers Poems, Synopsis of Jack Spicers Poems, Themes of Jack Spicers Poems, Analysis of John Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel, Jacques Derrida's Structure, Sign and Play. Unable to add item to List. Never was able to get stanza 5 of the book of Lancelot out of my head. Building a community of authors and readers to discuss the latest research and develop new ideas. : Hlibchuck, Geoffrey: From Typology to Topology: On Jack Spicer (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, Contemporary literature, 2010-07-01, Vol. One of the most obvious elements of Spicer's poetry is its frequent and at times near obsessive recourse to myth and legend. Soldofsky, Alan: Those to Whom Interesting Things Happen: William Carlos Williams, Kenneth Rexroth, Lew Welch and Joanne Kyger, and the Genome of San Francisco Renaissance Poetry, William Carlos Williams Review, Volume 35, Number 2, 2018. /Type /Font Lukkenaer, Pim and Schmitz, Jacques: Jack Spicers De Oceaan, a lost book, Berlin/Rotterdam 2018. Because the poems were written for ghosts. Try again. 0000023186 00000 n Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for THE COLLECTED BOOKS OF JACK SPICER *Excellent Condition* at the best online prices at eBay! Hostname: page-component-789cc574b8-dcfpl Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. 'Cryptic' would be a better characteristic. 0000116603 00000 n Por ejemplo, [None, 'hello', 10] no se puede ordenar ya que los enteros no se pueden . Using your mobile phone camera - scan the code below and download the Kindle app. Spicer wrote the poems in his first book using the ideas he introduced and developed during his 1957 workshop. Jack Spicer (January 30, 1925 - August 17, 1965) wrote a poetry of imagistic and conceptual juxtaposition reminiscent, at times, of Dadaist randomness. Spicers lines approach the mystery of Daoist utterance in attempting to express these elusive notions or images: I can write a poem about him a hundred times but he is not there. Although he called it a manifesto, it resembled poetry in parts, and, in others, fiction, in its use of narrative and dialog. The collected poetry of Jack Spicer, edited by Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2008). Now this comprehensive biography gives a pivotal poet his due. boundary 2 remains committed to understanding the present and approaching the study of culture and politics (national and international) through literature, philosophy, and the human sciences. Request Permissions. Foster, Edward Halsey. /FontName /GlyphLessFont Is it, then, all worth it? <<7694DA57FCEC43BC1740C7F802125C7E>]/Prev 241907>> Although unmarked this copy is from the library of poet Jack Gilbert, who was a participant in Spicer's now legendary Poetry as Magic workshop held at the San Francisco Public Library in . Request a transcript here. How Jack Spicer broke through the pieties of the avant-garde. Is part of the set. stream (Duke University Press 1977), pp. Lacking the straightforward how to nature of a handbook, The Textbook of Poetry instead presents in imaginative terms Spicers notions about poetry, its composition, and its meaning. Duke University Press publishes approximately one hundred books per year and Jack Spicers Impossible Quest for the Holy Grail, International Journal of Literature and Arts, The American poet Jack Spicer (1925-1965) called, in his second lecture for students in Vancouver, his serial poem. /Metadata 406 0 R 0000142656 00000 n Or more elusive. The poets understanding does not shape that work, however. 0000144146 00000 n 6 0 obj <> 51 (2), pp. Poets lend voices to current events and elections as they critique and defend the social and political issues of their day. Please try again. (By the way Wesleyan has also authorized a reprint of Spicer's 1962 volume The Holy Grail by a Portland, Oregon-based small press called Poor Claudia: not a facsimile edition by any means yet a handsome little book all on its own, especially for those who like every poem by Spicer's on a different page! 4 0 obj He is often associated with the San . ), rdite pour la 1re fois en version vinyle " Magna Carta. 0 : Top subscription boxes right to your door, 1996-2023, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates, Learn more how customers reviews work on Amazon. 25 0 R 27 0 R 29 0 R 31 0 R 33 0 R 35 0 R 37 0 R 39 0 R The variation on the Grail quest with Gawain as the protagonist has gotten the most attention from scholars, but reading it I was much more fascinated by the take on the Guenevere abduction myth . endobj Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club thats right for you for free. << Copyright 2012- Science Publishing Group All rights reserved. on August 25, 2022, The Holy Grail - poetry book by Jack Spicer published by White Rabbit Press, 1964, There are no reviews yet. Eliot, T. S.: The Complete Poems and Plays, edited by Valerie Eliot (London: Guild Publishing, 1987). does also publish two journals of advanced mathematics and a few publications If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. xyqfy=3||g-T& Q'JGTBDy1!"'"I, P Ba tWwUoD`o\lc//x.~l?zpc. "_|w~Cwq'\/>F#_7~v(x\`%^&^[OqOEj_ F41C)6:vv$k.g.o_-^oOhgOi&m_~kaL.29M7gG_ovlC4u@klzBvj]C(Wv/wW!|{;5F.+'# #5q[y~It-W(7-vX*2p&FY}wurm,'lVV]~E_;mR~L1z.1`ZO_&>mW-r+-b*\p'._n)|I'k-b_9.lVR7{SIgV1sWJA_"wet\U9AJ"NZ}I]ndl$( 3vR. He was the elder of two sons. stream . 48 0 obj 0000001335 00000 n woolstation endobj thirty journals, primarily in the humanities and social sciences, though it 0000145207 00000 n 0000043965 00000 n After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Jack Spicers Impossible Quest for the Holy Grail. . This item is part of a JSTOR Collection. Jack Spicer's The Holy Grail is an influential collection of poems that explores themes of alienation, despair, and the search for meaning and identity, and has had a lasting impact on the American poetic landscape. The Collected Books of Jack Spicer first appeared in 1975, ten years after the death of Jack Spicer.It was "edited & with a commentary by Robin Blaser" and published in Santa Rosa, California by Black Sparrow Press.A primary document of the San Francisco Renaissance, The Collected Books of Jack Spicer has arguably reached the status of a twentieth century "classic" and helped to define an . web pages Schmitz, Jacques: Jack Spicers Holy Grail, translated, Berlin/Rotterdam 2018. LGBTQ love poetry by and for the queer community. The Holy Grail(written in 1962) is an important collection of 'Books', as Jack Spicer (1925-1965) calls the parts of his later 'serial' poems. Other poems, including the sequences Love Poems, Intermissions, Transformations, Phonemics, and Graphemics, intertwine Spicers idiosyncratic meditations on love and death, including again Kennedys death, with his continuing exploration of the nature of poetry. The noise without an audience. Shoemaker, Robert Eric: After After Lorca: Anamnesis and Magic between Jack Spicer and Federico Garca Lorca, Print & Online, 2019. [The opening comments are from the 4th Lecture on Poetry & Politics at the Berkeley Conference on July 14th 1965. In many ways, the air of familiarity but also of belatedness, unoriginality, and incompletion which Spicer's allusions foster is at the heart of his entire project, encapsulated in the concept of tradition as elaborated in After Lorca: generations of different poets in different countries patiently telling the same story, writing the same poem, gaining and losing something with each transformation but, of course, never really losing anything (CP, 11011). Jack Spicers Impossible Quest for the Holy Grail. Spicers own poetry never completely lacks sense or meaning, however. >> /Registry (Adobe) What he giveth in self-review he taketh away in a sort of holy thundering shyness thats more Jerome than Francis. Copyright 2021 Authors retain the copyright of this article. Brief content visible, double tap to read full content. Then enter the name part Eliot, T. S.: The Complete Poems and Plays, edited by Valerie Eliot (London: Guild Publishing, 1987). The story says that one day a Fisher King will rise to heal the land. Jack Spicer speaks and reads from Language (full work) The second of two shows edited by Mark Weiss in 1975. Holy Grail, The by Spicer, Jack and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at AbeBooks.com. He died in 1965 virtually unrecognized, yet in the following years his work and thought have attracted and intrigued an international audience. Totally corrupt. 1 This is a design principle for all mutable data structures in Python.. Otra cosa que puedes observar es que no todos los datos se pueden ordenar o comparar. Spicer, Jack, Blaser, Robin and Granger, John: A Plan for a Book on Tarot, boundary 2, Vol. The friendship among these three poets would develop into what they referred to as The Berkeley Renaissance, which would in turn become the San Francisco Renaissance after Spicer, Blaser, and Duncan moved to San Francisco in the 1950s. Just as earlier poems had used the Orphic and Holy Grail myths for springboards, Baseball Predictions, April 1, 1964 uses for its central concern the death of President John F. Kennedy, an event that had already taken on mythic dimensions in American culture. 0000144543 00000 n The Holy Grail by. on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Here, Orpheus is the outstanding figure by some distance, but references to Greek mythology and Ovidian tales are found in many places, as well as Arthurian romance and popular mythology and Americana, as in his major books The Holy Grail and Billy the Kid. /Contents 50 0 R /PageLabels << Jonas, Hans: The Gnostic Religion The Message of the Alien God & the Beginnings of Christianity (Beacon Press, Boston, MA 1958, reprinted 2001. /Subtype /CIDFontType2 355 - 365 Jonas, Hans: The Gnostic Religion The Message of the Alien God & the Beginnings of Christianity (Beacon Press, Boston, MA 1958, reprinted 2001. While attending college at the University of California, Berkeley, Spicer met fellow poets, Spicer helped to form the 6 Gallery with five painter friends in 1954. stream Poet Be Like God: Jack Spicer and the San Francisco Renaissance. >> . "useRatesEcommerce": false Jack Spicer. /Subtype /Type0 His first such grouping, After Lorca, uses Federico Garca Lorcas poems as a jumping-off point. To the degree that he was successfully receptive to such dictation, his poems could be regarded as objective but nonanalytical in nature, in common with Surrealists. << And not only his friends, but millions of untold strangers, a catastrophe of such enormity that poetry itself gasps in its wake, deaf, blind, and speechless. . Jack Spicer THE HOLY GRAIL Copyright 1964 by Jack Spicer Printed in USA Jack Spicer a whice RABBIS PRESS + SANETRANCISCO + 1964 White Rabbit Press Box 2836 San . After Lorca gained access to the field and established the direction of the poetry CpsA[>cFqyNA'~I\yf;`z_*n"-Y/Z $O|6Nl R8"E6VGUkR%o WK.EWF NM;Yz}3s2VNRe/yCrJ The Holy Grail Spicer was born in Los Angeles, California in 1925 to Midwestern parents and raised in a Calvinist home. Weston, Jessie L.: The Quest of the Holy Grail (1913) (photostatic reprint Barnes & Noble, New York 1964. x :hh As Gizzistates in his introduction to The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer, [The] game between the material and invisible worlds places the poet in the embarrassing position of merely following orders from the beyond. /FitWindow true His poems are also intentional, however, with their intent often arising from a strong impulse to teach. 5 0 obj 6, No. Katz, Daniel: The Poetry of Jack Spicer (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013). << >> Jack: The House that Jack Built. >> ] Get help and learn more about the design. Publishing with us to make your research visible to the widest possible audience. 0000022508 00000 n The Holy Grail is the summation of Jack Spicer's explorations into perception-as-love; it is a complete phenomenology of purpose which culminates his attention to the poetic act in all his previous books. ODonell-Smith, Daniel: Vox ex machina: towards a digital poetics of the disembodied voice, Doctoral thesis, Birkbeck, University of London, 2017. He was obsessed with possibilities he could only occasionally realize, and too aware of contemporary life to settle for anything less in his work than what he probably could not achieve. Whats more, self-consciousness leads also to sorrows, in particular lonelinesswho else but me is looking?and here also Spicer is no more fully satisfying: hes the poets poet par excellence, no reference points except the very poem, yet he refuses to console us with homilies and buck-up, trade-union sermons. Jack Spicer was born John Lester Spicer on January 30, 1925, in Los Angeles. In his 1965 Vancouver Lectures, he illustrated this process by claiming he received his poetry from Martian sources, from the dead, and by likening the poet to a radio receiving transmissions. /Count 39 please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. Spicer, Jack: My vocabulary did this to me. Jack Spicer - "the holy grail". To save content items to your account, [1] In 2009, My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer won the American Book Award for poetry. Spicer was not a very happy poet. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we dont use a simple average. /FontBBox [ 0 0 500 1000 ] So Spicer wages battle with the creative ego in terms that remain provocative in an age still searching for poetic authenticity and identity., In an assessment of Spicers work, Ross Feld commented: Even in a self-conscious century no contemporary poet seems more art-occupied than Jack Spicer. Spicer helped to form the 6 Gallery with five painter friends in 1954. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Erec & Enide (Salt Modern Poets) by De Ath at the best online prices at eBay! Always weary of labels and definitions, Spicer tended to associate with small, intimate groups of poets who lived in the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco. One of the most obvious elements of Spicer's poetry is its frequent and at times near obsessive recourse to myth and legend. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. /DescendantFonts [ 4 0 R ] and is known in general as a publisher willing to take chances with nontraditional Nelson, Paul E.: Notes on The Practice of Outside: Robin Blasers Divine Real (Notes on The Practice of Outside: Robin Blasers Divine Real | Paul E Nelson, 2013, collected June 14, 2021). ), Find out more about saving to your Kindle. Schmitz, Jacques: Jack Spicers Holy Grail, translated, Berlin/Rotterdam 2018. /FontDescriptor 7 0 R Spicer then presents an extravaganza of erratically bold and freewheeling translations, intermixed with a series of letters Spicer imagined writing to Garca Lorca. 'Cryptic' would be a better characteristic. Institute for Dutch Literature, Humanities Faculty, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands, International Journal of Literature and Arts, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. /DW 500 /MarkInfo << /Lang (eng) If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. <> >> My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer Starting at $15.45. Granger, John: The Idea of the alien in Jack Spicers dictated books, Thesis, Department of English, Simon Fraser University 1982. Taylor-Callier, Lucinda: Dictation, the Outside and the Dead: Elements for a Necropolis, Master of Arts by Research (MARes) thesis, University of Kent, 2017. Jack Spicer has 33 books on Goodreads with 6144 ratings. % 0000021963 00000 n Katz, Daniel: Be Brave To Things. Readers will undoubtedly find it not simple at all. The uncollected Poetry and Plays of Jack Spicer, Wesleyan University Press, to be published December 2021. For twenty years Killian's friends have been dying like flies--four flies on gray velvet, to borrow one of Argento's titles. Use of this Web site signifies your agreement to the terms and conditions. All the same, the lines themselves have a character indistinguishable from Spicers other poetry. Filter Results Shipping. >> Weston, Jessie L.: The Quest of the Holy Grail (1913) (photostatic reprint Barnes & Noble, New York 1964. endstream 0000023335 00000 n Jack Spicer. Ellingham, Lewis, and Kevin Killian. Godine Publisher, David . Find out more about saving content to Google Drive. Jack Spicer (Chapter 26) - The Cambridge Companion to American Poets The Cambridge Companion to American Poets 26 - Jack Spicer Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2015 By Daniel Katz Edited by Mark Richardson Chapter Get access Share Cite Type Chapter Information The Cambridge Companion to American Poets , pp. 2 0 obj endobj << Yes. As a native Californian, Spicer tended to view the Beats as usurpers and criticized the poetry and self-promotion of poets like Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, as well as the Beat ethos in general. %PDF-1.5 Spicer, Jack: Citroenen, gedichten en zeewier [Lemons, poems and seaweed], translated, with an afterword by Jan H. Mysjkin (Bleiswijk: Uitgeverij Vleugels, 2018). He also, more unusually, seems to have given in to the need for self-explanation: Assertions appear among these lines, as if in selfdefense, that what he is writing is, indeed, poetry. The pseudo-translations give Spicer an opportunity to salute such varied figures as Paul Verlaine, Walt Whitman, and Buster Keaton, as well as Garca Lorca. . 0000000972 00000 n Spicer argued that personal experience provides the material or vocabulary for poetry even while the conscious mind provides a less than ideal means for transforming that material into poetry. : Spicer. But such a justification notwithstanding, it needs to be stressed that the plethora of learned allusion and very largely Eurocentric high classicism sets Spicer apart from many contemporaries such as Creeley, O'Hara, and Ginsberg, or going farther afield, John Berryman whom he otherwise resembles in his preference for a relaxed colloquial American idiom and a decidedly contemporary set of authorial postures, references, and situations. 0000022027 00000 n The imagination pictures the real. Want to . 0000142883 00000 n He considered true poetry to be "dictated," and thus removed from the conscious control of the poet. Shoemaker, Robert Eric: After After Lorca: Anamnesis and Magic between Jack Spicer and Federico Garca Lorca, Print & Online, 2019. magnitude of the journals program within the Press is unique among American Go for it, Poor Claudia.) From The holy grail : the book of the death of Arthur. Uploaded by A new compilation of Jack Spicers uncollected work deepens our understanding of the seminal cult poet. Each part consists of a series of connected poems - in contrast with his earlier 'standalone' poems, called 'one-night stands' by him, and rejected. He spent most of his writing-life in San Francisco. , Paperback (1925, tats-Unis - 1965, tats-Unis) Main title. . Soldofsky, Alan: Those to Whom Interesting Things Happen: William Carlos Williams, Kenneth Rexroth, Lew Welch and Joanne Kyger, and the Genome of San Francisco Renaissance Poetry, William Carlos Williams Review, Volume 35, Number 2, 2018. Two other more recently published late books, Helen: A Revision and to a lesser extent, Golem, underscore this aspect of Spicer's practice, which has far-reaching implications for his poetics as a whole, but also for his positioning among his peers and predecessors. Extending beyond the postmodern, boundary 2 approaches problems of literature and culture from a number of politically, historically, and theoretically informed perspectives. Copyright 2012 -- Science Publishing Group All rights reserved. Published online by Cambridge University Press: xmj0~ Be the first one to, Advanced embedding details, examples, and help, Terms of Service (last updated 12/31/2014). @free.kindle.com emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. Based on recordings from the Spicer estate. Jack Spicer's most popular book is My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry. The collected poetry of Jack Spicer, edited by Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2008). Over the next year or so his poetic production dwindled to almost nothing, and probably not coincidentally, his personal and professional life also deteriorated markedly. /Type /Pages /Descent -1 in the broad and interdisciplinary area of "theory and history of cultural production," He must have been a great spirit.. . Spicer, Jack: Citroenen, gedichten en zeewier [Lemons, poems and seaweed], translated, with an afterword by Jan H. Mysjkin (Bleiswijk: Uitgeverij Vleugels, 2018). 0000022982 00000 n >> endobj 73 0 R 75 0 R 77 0 R 79 0 R 81 0 R 83 0 R 85 0 R ] Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service. /Flags 5 Whose tiny sails, grail bearing Would have to support me All the loves of my life Each impossible choice I had been making. endstream trailer Foster, Edward Halsey. <> *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Jack Spicer (January 30, 1925 - August 17, 1965) was an American poet often identified with the San Francisco Renaissance. 0000104284 00000 n Wave Upon wave. >> The relative endobj Customer Reviews, including Product Star Ratings help customers to learn more about the product and decide whether it is the right product for them. . Eligible for Free Shipping; Expedited Shipping Available; Item Condition . 47 33 Learn more. ASIN Jack Spicer (January 30, 1925 August 17, 1965) wrote a poetry of imagistic and conceptual juxtaposition reminiscent, at times, of Dadaist randomness. endobj Product Identifiers. But Spicer does not want to be more explicit. 05 August 2013. /BaseFont /GlyphLessFont /FontFile2 8 0 R hasContentIssue false, The Early Poetry: Cartography, Seriality, Time, The Metasexual City: Politics, Nonsense, Poetry. Content may require purchase if you do not have access. Render date: 2023-04-17T08:22:20.274Z Readers will undoubtedly find it not simple at all. . /Filter /FlateDecode XX| _!/17k[@ d@ oR(olY@?h p0MBL`&#L`+8B38@LU T#[D@vi6`, OY@q/QbpY. Spicer, Jack. While attending college at the University of California, Berkeley, Spicer met fellow poets Robin Blaser and Robert Duncan. After leading the workshop in San Francisco in 1957, Spicer never managed to depart completely from teaching about his chosen subject: what poetry is and is not, and how it is written, or rather dictated. Poems from and about the American involvement in Vietnam. 3.88 avg rating 8 ratings published 1964 3 editions. Jack Spicer speaks and reads from Language (full work) The second of two shows edited by Mark Weiss in 1975 and broadcast on Susan Howe's Pacifica/WBAI Poetry program a few years later. A Textbook of Poetry was one of several books that appeared under a title that suggested a literary form other than what it actually was. It was at the Six Gallery during Spicers sojourn east that Allen Ginsberg first read Howl. by Paul A. Lacey and Anne Dewey, Also author of Homage to Creeley (poems), c. 1950's, and The Ballad of the Dead Woodcutter. } Blaser, Robin: The Collected Books of Jack Spicer (Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1999). endobj Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. Ellingham, Lewis and Killian, Kevin: Poet be like God Jack Spicer and the San Francisco Renaissance (Hanover and London: University Press of New England, 1998). please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. The Holy Grail [Spicer, Jack] on Amazon.com. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. There was a problem loading your book clubs. After stating Metaphors are not for humans, Spicer writes this short paragraph: The wires dance in the winds of the noise our poems make. 310-340). 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