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Katz avoids the temptation to mask or resolve the contradictory nature of Spicer's poetics, thereby yielding a poet of greater scope and complexity

Home Browse Books Book details, The Poetry of Jack Spicer. In the years since his death from alcohol poisoning, Jack Spicer (1925-1965) has gradually come to be recognized as one of most intriguing of the so-called 'New American Poetry' poets

Home Browse Books Book details, The Poetry of Jack Spicer. The Poetry of Jack Spicer. In the years since his death from alcohol poisoning, Jack Spicer (1925-1965) has gradually come to be recognized as one of most intriguing of the so-called 'New American Poetry' poets. This study places Spicer's work in the context of the San Francisco Renaissance and contemporary movements with which he was in dialogue such as the Beats, the Black Mountain poets, and the 'New York School'. It also explores his relationship to the major modernists from whom his innovative poetics derived.

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In the years since his death from alcohol poisoning, Jack Spicer (1925-1965) has gradually come to be recognized as one of most intriguing of the so-called 'New American Poetry' poets. This study places Spicer’s work in the context of the San Francisco Renaissance and contemporary movements with which he was in dialogue such as the Beats, the Black Mountain poets, and the 'New York School'.

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These, combined with his early demise, meant that almost all of his major work was either scantily KATZ 9780748640980 PRINT. Thus, the theory of the serial poem bears an especially heavy burden precisely because of Spicer’s own marking of it – within a book of poetry – as responsible for the birth of his truly KATZ 9780748640980 PRINT. indd 8 07/12/2012 13:29 Introduction 9 significant work.

Katz's book is thorough, thoughtful and brilliantly argued. Simon Smith"New Statesman" (01/01/0001) This brilliant study of Jack Spicer's poetry will be an essential companion for anyone reading his poems.

Daniel Katz is Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. He is the author of Saying I No More: Subjectivity and Consciousness in the Prose of Samuel Beckett, American Modernism's Expatriate Scene: The Labour of Translation, and The Poetry of Jack Spicer. Библиографические данные.

195 pp. £7. 0 Hardcover ; £2. 9 paperback

195 pp. 9 paperback. Daniel Katz's The Poetry of Jack Spicer, the first single-author study of the Berkeley Renaissance poet, proceeds chronologically from Spicer's early lyric one night stands to his mature serial poetry, discussing key motifs for all Spicer's poetry.

Jack Spicer (January 30, 1925 – August 17, 1965) was an American poet often identified with the San Francisco Renaissance. In 2009, My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer won the American Book Award for poetry. Born as John Lester Spicer on January 30, 1925 in Los Angeles to Dorothy Clause and John Lovely Spicer. He graduated from Fairfax High School in 1942, and attended the University of Redlands from 1943–1945.

During this same time, Spicer developed his practice of "poetry as dictation" and began to transcribe the poems .

During this same time, Spicer developed his practice of "poetry as dictation" and began to transcribe the poems that would become his first collection, After Lorca, which was published in 1957. He defined the poet as a "radio" able to collect transmission from the "invisible world," as opposed to believing that poetry was driven by a poet's voice and will. Spicer despised New York City and relocated to Boston where he briefly worked in the rare books room at Boston Public Library. He then returned to San Francisco where Duncan was able to use his position at the Poetry Center at San Francisco State College to offer Spicer the opportunity to teach his own workshop.