/FitWindow true 4 0 obj Jack Spicers Impossible Quest for the Holy Grail. Totally corrupt. 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. Copyright 2021 Authors retain the copyright of this article. The imagination pictures the real. Apocryphal Lorca: Translation, Parody, Kitsch. But Spicer does not want to be more explicit. endobj Lukkenaer, Pim and Schmitz, Jacques: Jack Spicers De Oceaan, a lost book, Berlin/Rotterdam 2018. Katz, Daniel: The Poetry of Jack Spicer (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013). The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer. 47 33 50 0 obj /ViewerPreferences << 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. >> One of the most obvious elements of Spicer's poetry is its frequent and at times near obsessive recourse to myth and legend. Render date: 2023-04-17T08:22:20.274Z /PageLabels << /Contents 50 0 R 0000145207 00000 n It is composed of seven sections, each containing seven poems. >> ] <> Bit of an odd one (and hard to find). Acne is often associated with . There was a problem loading your book clubs. Blaser, Robin: The Fire: Collected Essays (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006). Jack Spicer's most popular book is My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry. /CIDToGIDMap 5 0 R Holy Grail, The by Spicer, Jack and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at AbeBooks.com. 0000001121 00000 n Content may require purchase if you do not have access. of your Kindle email address below. 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. 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. 05 August 2013. 0000021985 00000 n Download the free Kindle app and start reading Kindle books instantly on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. web pages <<7694DA57FCEC43BC1740C7F802125C7E>]/Prev 241907>> 0000144543 00000 n /DW 500 Go for it, Poor Claudia.) Poets chasing poets, Dean Young vs. Tony Hoagland, a theory of hats, and more. Jack Spicers Impossible Quest for the Holy Grail, DOI: Weston, Jessie L.: The Quest of the Holy Grail (1913) (photostatic reprint Barnes & Noble, New York 1964. The Holy Grail (1962), which includes seven "books" with seven untitled poems each, is the most balanced and structurally harmonious of these works, even as the clash of its voices, images, and beats creates, as Spicer himself acknowledged, an "uncomfortable music." Home Literature Analysis of Jack Spicers Poems, By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on July 16, 2020 ( 0 ). xref Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. /Type /Catalog thirty journals, primarily in the humanities and social sciences, though it Jack Spicer. You might have noticed that methods like insert, remove or sort that only modify the list have no return value printed - they return the default None. The other voice that is within the poet, as well as the true poetry that is contained within the dictated poem, are elusive and perhaps are never completely within the grasp of understanding: The ghosts the poems were written for are the ghosts of the poems. He felt and expressed the sense of there being an Other who dictated his poems, whom he sometimes humorously identified as a Martian. 0000024140 00000 n 1, Jack Spicer. [The opening comments are from the 4th Lecture on Poetry & Politics at the Berkeley Conference on July 14th 1965. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. How Jack Spicer broke through the pieties of the avant-garde. Boise, Idaho: Boise State University Press, 1991. The collected poetry of Jack Spicer, edited by Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2008). That is what makes it possible for a poet to translate real objects, to bring them across language as easily as he can bring them across time. He notes that his own letter, now an object, will inspire an act akin to his own: some future poet will write something which corresponds to them. Spicer. Taylor-Callier, Lucinda: Dictation, the Outside and the Dead: Elements for a Necropolis, Master of Arts by Research (MARes) thesis, University of Kent, 2017. : Por ejemplo, [None, 'hello', 10] no se puede ordenar ya que los enteros no se pueden . Spicer then presents an extravaganza of erratically bold and freewheeling translations, intermixed with a series of letters Spicer imagined writing to Garca Lorca. : Weston, Jessie L.: From Ritual tot Romance/ The King Arthur Legends, (1920) (Free on the Internet - See the text in Project Gutenberg or reprinted in for instance ISBN-13: 978-1534821361). . The Poetry of Language and the Language of Poetry: Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. /Type /Font Copyright 2012 -- Science Publishing Group All rights reserved. Ellingham, Lewis, and Kevin Killian. 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). Spicer was born in Los Angeles, California in 1925 to Midwestern parents and raised in a Calvinist home. Addeddate 2022-08-25 20:55:05 Identifier jack-spicer-the-holy-grail Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s2hwv2r5pb5 Ocr tesseract 5.2.0-1-gc42a Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Cyrillic Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.8218 Is it, then, all worth it? Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. Never was able to get stanza 5 of the book of Lancelot out of my head. /Nums [ 0 << The collected Lectures of Jack Spicer, edited by Peter Gizzi ((Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1998). endobj In writing Language, Spicer was succumbing yet again to the heuristic impulse and talking about poetry as a way of teaching about poetry. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive. 41 0 R 43 0 R 45 0 R 47 0 R 49 0 R 51 0 R 53 0 R 55 0 R 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. >> 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. 355 - 365 Nonfiction: Dear Ferlinghetti: The Spicer/Ferlinghetti Correspondence: Dear Jack, 1964 (with Lawrence Ferlinghetti); The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer, 1998 (Peter Gizzi, editor). <> /Subtype /Type0 Bibliography Spicer died on August 17, 1965 at San Francisco General Hospital. . Wide-Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965. The book begins with a fictitious introduction that is presented as having been written by Garca Lorca himself, twenty years after his own death. Need a transcript of this episode? Hlibchuck, Geoffrey: From Typology to Topology: On Jack Spicer (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, Contemporary literature, 2010-07-01, Vol. 'Cryptic' would be a better characteristic. We will keep fighting for all libraries - stand with us! You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. Using your mobile phone camera - scan the code below and download the Kindle app. Uploaded by The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer . Although he called it a manifesto, it resembled poetry in parts, and, in others, fiction, in its use of narrative and dialog. Spicer taught briefly at the University of Minnesota and worked for a short period of time in the rare books room at the Boston Public Library, but he lived the majority of his life in San Francisco working as a researcher in linguistics. . Find out more about saving to your Kindle. Read instantly on your browser with Kindle for Web. Hlibchuck, Geoffrey: From Typology to Topology: On Jack Spicer (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, Contemporary literature, 2010-07-01, Vol. 8 0 obj . ASIN /FontName /GlyphLessFont (Duke University Press 1977), pp. 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. The unreliable-title approach of The Textbook of Poetry was anticipated by his early The Unvert Manifesto and Other Papers Found in the Rare Book Room of the Boston Public Library in the Handwriting of Oliver Charming, which Spicer wrote during his brief Boston period. Learn more. Wilhelmus Johannes Lukkenaer. Its that poised ineptitude and awkwardness of the anti-academic teacher, the scholar of linguistics who cant say what he knows in formal language, and has chosen to be very naive and look and hear and do. Jack Spicer (January 30, 1925 - August 17, 1965) was an American poet often identified with the San Francisco Renaissance. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox. /CapHeight 1000 /DescendantFonts [ 4 0 R ] (Jack Spicer, The Holy Grail [written 1962, published 1964]) 12 Allen Sherman, who died . Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations. (Duke University Press 1977), pp. is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings 0000142656 00000 n Poet Be Like God: Jack Spicer and the San Francisco Renaissance. Holy grail " le 12me album de JAY-Z. After stating Metaphors are not for humans, Spicer writes this short paragraph: The wires dance in the winds of the noise our poems make. >> >> The poet did not, however, leave us without some clues, two of . 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. The text is presented as prose, in paragraphs that are fully justified, rather than left-justified as is standard for poetry. It is composed of seven sections, each containing seven poems. 0000000972 00000 n Top subscription boxes right to your door, 1996-2023, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates, Learn more how customers reviews work on Amazon. Jack Spicer's most popular book is My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry. Jack Spicer. 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. . Then enter the name part Shoemaker, Robert Eric: After After Lorca: Anamnesis and Magic between Jack Spicer and Federico Garca Lorca, Print & Online, 2019. >> 49 0 obj , White Rabbit Press; First Edition (January 1, 1964), Language 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. Eliot, T. S.: The Complete Poems and Plays, edited by Valerie Eliot (London: Guild Publishing, 1987). /ToUnicode 6 0 R boundary 2 Edited by Peter Gizzi. The Holy Grail - poetry book by Jack Spicer published by White Rabbit Press, 1964. /FontFile2 8 0 R trailer He considered true poetry to be dictated, and thus removed from the conscious control of the poet. 0000037671 00000 n endstream Major Works << Total loading time: 0 : Eligible for Free Shipping; Expedited Shipping Available; Item Condition . in the broad and interdisciplinary area of "theory and history of cultural production," /FontDescriptor 7 0 R ), rdite pour la 1re fois en version vinyle " Magna Carta. 0000024595 00000 n Get help and learn more about the design. Jack: The House that Jack Built. It was at the Six Gallery during Spicers sojourn east that, The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer, Mad Cartographer: A Discussion of Jack Spicers "Psychoanalysis: An Elegy. Spicer's completion of The Holy Grail in August 1962 marked the end of a virtually uninterrupted period of creativity which had begun in Boston in 1956 with Oliver Charming. Eliot, T. S.: The Complete Poems and Plays, edited by Valerie Eliot (London: Guild Publishing, 1987). Jack Spicers Impossible Quest for the Holy Grail. 0000022982 00000 n up to the poet's early death, including Admonitions (1958), A Book of Music (1958), Billy the Kid (1958), and The Holy Grail (1962). CpsA[>cFqyNA'~I\yf;`z_*n"-Y/Z $O|6Nl R8"E6VGUkR%o WK.EWF NM;Yz}3s2VNRe/yCrJ . Mayhew, Jonathan. /Filter /FlateDecode wb Unable to add item to List. startxref A collection of poems and essays by LGBTQ+ poets on topics and themes of identity, gender, and sexuality. Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service. 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. 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. << wT { e xX'@[R @#'?9 $r+ From his 1957 book After Lorca onward, Spicer wrote what he described as dictated poetry. He died in 1965 virtually unrecognized, yet in the following years his work and thought have attracted and intrigued an international audience. 0000116603 00000 n To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we dont use a simple average. Katz, Daniel: Be Brave To Things. 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. My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer Starting at $15.45. /Count 39 Spicer, Jack, Blaser, Robin and Granger, John: A Plan for a Book on Tarot, boundary 2, Vol. 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 . Jack Spicer, Poetics, the Holy Grail, Arthurian Literature, Gnosticism, Initiation, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. @free.kindle.com emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. Changing narrators, shifting time periods, the author's use of jokes and lapsus linguae and folk songs, all conspire to create what Spicer called "an uncomfortable music." Spicer, Jack: Citroenen, gedichten en zeewier [Lemons, poems and seaweed], translated, with an afterword by Jan H. Mysjkin (Bleiswijk: Uitgeverij Vleugels, 2018). /Marked true 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). Based on recordings from the Spicer estate. View, The American poet Jack Spicer (1925-1965) called, in his second lecture for students in Vancouver, his serial poem, Jack Spicer, Poetics, the Holy Grail, Arthurian Literature, Gnosticism, Initiation. on the Internet. /Length 150 /Filter /FlateDecode A freshness of invention animates even the briefest of the poems, while the imaginary letters to Garca Lorca state some of the poets ambitions: I would like to make poems out of real objects. Shoemaker, Robert Eric: After After Lorca: Anamnesis and Magic between Jack Spicer and Federico Garca Lorca, Print & Online, 2019. /BaseFont /GlyphLessFont 1 0 obj Try again. 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. Schmitz, Jacques: Jack Spicers Holy Grail, translated, Berlin/Rotterdam 2018. The Holy Grail by Jack Spicer Write The First Customer Review. This item is part of a JSTOR Collection. 0000023186 00000 n >> 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). Please try again. For Spicer, the poet acts as a receptive host for language, rather than as an agent of self-expression. /Encoding /Identity-H From his 1957 book After Lorca onward, Spicer wrote what he described as "dictated" poetry. Boyd, Nan Alamilla. - P.Gizzi] Complete program (58:03): MP3 Spicer reads Language (44:43): MP3 6, No. 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. Poems that serve as letters to the world. 0000001335 00000 n /FontBBox [ 0 0 500 1000 ] /Descent -1 Jack Spicer (January 30, 1925 August 17, 1965) wrote a poetry of imagistic and conceptual juxtaposition reminiscent, at times, of Dadaist randomness. While attending college at the University of California, Berkeley, Spicer met fellow poets Robin Blaser and Robert Duncan. 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). Wilhelmus Johannes Lukkenaer. stream /DisplayDocTitle true and interdisciplinary publications, both books and journals. /ItalicAngle 0 << Or more elusive. Spicer had been working on Language in the last two years of his life, and it includes several sequences of poems that show his further exploration of themes and approaches that already had characterized his works. One of the most obvious elements of Spicer's poetry is its frequent and at times near obsessive recourse to myth and legend. Foster, Edward Halsey. Blaser, Robin: The Fire: Collected Essays (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006). What he giveth in self-review he taketh away in a sort of holy thundering shyness thats more Jerome than Francis. Request a transcript here. endobj He must have been a great spirit.. 310-340). In 1998, Wesleyan University Press published The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer, edited by Peter Gizziand Kevin Killian. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. 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. 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. But, Spicer reassures his young audience, the best condition for the poem is one of not-knowing, and the poet has a better chance of that with dictation than with self-expression. Jack Spicer. 51 (2), pp. Please try again. please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. LGBTQ love poetry by and for the queer community. 0000022508 00000 n /Flags 5 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. @kindle.com emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply. Blaser, Robin: The Collected Books of Jack Spicer (Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1999). We have it second-hand. In addition to dictation, he arrived at the idea of the poem-series, or book, which is a larger form that incorporates and helps give meaning to the individual, component poems. endobj Readers will undoubtedly find it not simple at all. Be the first one to, Advanced embedding details, examples, and help, Terms of Service (last updated 12/31/2014). Spicer, Jack: Citroenen, gedichten en zeewier [Lemons, poems and seaweed], translated, with an afterword by Jan H. Mysjkin (Bleiswijk: Uitgeverij Vleugels, 2018). 0000104284 00000 n endobj %%EOF From The holy grail : the book of the death of Arthur. Poets lend voices to current events and elections as they critique and defend the social and political issues of their day. Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring poets Julia Bloch, CA Conrad, and Rachel Blau Duplessis. 7 Dans son dernier chapitre, en vue d'une synthse thorique du mythe percevalien, C. Imperiali fait remonter la surface les mythmes fondamentaux qui caractrisent la matire de Perceval et qui sont susceptibles d'inspirer les crivains et potes de tout temps : le nice (le simple, l'idiot) ; l'assemblage des motifs du . /Length1 572 does also publish two journals of advanced mathematics and a few publications 73 0 R 75 0 R 77 0 R 79 0 R 81 0 R 83 0 R 85 0 R ] Jack Spicer has 33 books on Goodreads with 6144 ratings. Customer Reviews, including Product Star Ratings help customers to learn more about the product and decide whether it is the right product for them. Full content visible, double tap to read brief content. 0000027052 00000 n 48 0 obj Third Man Records, le mythique label de JACK WHITE (THE WHITE STRIPES, THE DEAD WEATHER, THE KILLS etc. In a real sense, Spicer embraced the traditional notion of the Muse, without using the term and without arriving at traditional results in his poetry. Boise, Idaho: Boise State University Press, 1991. 3 0 obj Books by Jack Spicer. endobj . Download Citation | On Jan 1, 2021, Wilhelmus Johannes Lukkenaer published Jack Spicer's Impossible Quest for the Holy Grail | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate /Subtype /CIDFontType2 The Collected Poems of Denise Levertov, ed. Challener, Scott: Addressing Alien Worlds: Publics and Persons in the Poetry of Jack Spicer (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, Contemporary Literature, 2017, Vol. Fans of The Da Vinci Code . , Publisher >> Product Identifiers. 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. XX| _!/17k[@ d@ oR(olY@?h p0MBL`&#L`+8B38@LU T#[D@vi6`, OY@q/QbpY. 0000080719 00000 n ODonell-Smith, Daniel: Vox ex machina: towards a digital poetics of the disembodied voice, Doctoral thesis, Birkbeck, University of London, 2017. stream endobj The Holy Grail was originally published 50 years ago by White Rabbit Press. The Ordinary's Azelaic Acid Suspension 10% costs just 9.90, and has received top reviews from customers, who have dubbed it a 'miracle' and a 'holy grail product.'. Request Permissions. 0000022717 00000 n /BaseFont /GlyphLessFont The collected poetry of Jack Spicer, edited by Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2008). 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. Jack Spicer (1925-1965) was a poet, essayist, and translator. and is known in general as a publisher willing to take chances with nontraditional Step-by-step explanation. In the 1950s, they're still waiting. Granger, John: The Idea of the alien in Jack Spicers dictated books, Thesis, Department of English, Simon Fraser University 1982. Poems from and about the American involvement in Vietnam. [1] In 2009, My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer won the American Book Award for poetry. Spicer. <> /CIDSystemInfo << Jack Spicer - "the holy grail". Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. . 0000023915 00000 n Jack Spicer speaks and reads from Language (full work) The second of two shows edited by Mark Weiss in 1975. Jonas, Hans: The Gnostic Religion The Message of the Alien God & the Beginnings of Christianity (Beacon Press, Boston, MA 1958, reprinted 2001. 0000021963 00000 n It also analyzed reviews to verify trustworthiness. In 2009, My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer won the American Book Award for poetry. Because the poems were written for ghosts. Filter Results Shipping. 310-340). Search the history of over 804 billion 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. Creation date. Granger, John: The Idea of the alien in Jack Spicers dictated books, Thesis, Department of English, Simon Fraser University 1982. His numerous poetry collections include the posthumously published The Collected Books of Jack Spicer, edited by Robin Blaser (1975), A Book of Music (1969), The Holy Grail, (1964) and After Lorca (1957). 'Cryptic' would be a better characteristic. for primarily professional audiences (e.g., in law or medicine). 0000043965 00000 n There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. Request a transcript here. Jack Spicer (January 30, 1925 - August 17, 1965) was an American poet often identified with the San Francisco Renaissance. Jack Spicer. [The opening comments are from the 4th Lecture on Poetry & Politics at the Berkeley Conference on July 14th 1965. Although known primarily among a coterie of poets in the San Francisco Bay Area at the time of his death in 1965, over time, Jack Spicer has become a towering figure in American poetry. For twenty years Killian's friends have been dying like flies--four flies on gray velvet, to borrow one of Argento's titles. Challener, Scott: Addressing Alien Worlds: Publics and Persons in the Poetry of Jack Spicer (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, Contemporary Literature, 2017, Vol. Since the poets understanding of the world is part of that valid source-material, that understanding might be expected to appear in the dictated work. (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! The uncollected Poetry and Plays of Jack Spicer, Wesleyan University Press, to be published December 2021. "Fool," I could hear them shouting for we were becalmed in some impossible harbor The grail and me And in impossible armor The spooks that bent the ship Forwards and backwards. Duke University Press publishes approximately one hundred books per year and Jonas, Hans: The Gnostic Religion The Message of the Alien God & the Beginnings of Christianity (Beacon Press, Boston, MA 1958, reprinted 2001. Lukkenaer, Pim and Schmitz, Jacques: Jack Spicers De Oceaan, a lost book, Berlin/Rotterdam 2018. Copyright 2012- Science Publishing Group All rights reserved. << <> /Supplement 0 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 . 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. Is he concealing something? The collected Lectures of Jack Spicer, edited by Peter Gizzi ((Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1998). Hanover, N.H.: Wesleyan University Press, 1998. The American poet Jack Spicer (1925-1965) called, in his second lecture for students in Vancouver, his serial poem The Holy Grail (1962), 'fairly simple'. 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