50 0 obj In 1950 he lost his teaching assistantship after refusing to sign a loyalty oath to the United States, which the University of California required of all its employees under the Sloan-Levering Act. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. 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. Use of this Web site signifies your agreement to the terms and conditions. 0000037841 00000 n Get help and learn more about the design. trailer << Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Jack Spicer. (Duke University Press 1977), pp. Learn more. /Pages 2 0 R /Type /FontDescriptor Yes. Because the poems were written for ghosts. Go for it, Poor Claudia.) 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). 0000023335 00000 n Spicer then presents an extravaganza of erratically bold and freewheeling translations, intermixed with a series of letters Spicer imagined writing to Garca Lorca. } 0000023529 00000 n please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Request a transcript here. 48 0 obj web pages /StructTreeRoot 285 0 R /Length 333 Jonas, Hans: The Gnostic Religion The Message of the Alien God & the Beginnings of Christianity (Beacon Press, Boston, MA 1958, reprinted 2001. 4 0 obj 0000022508 00000 n Find out more about saving content to Dropbox. Katz, Daniel: The Poetry of Jack Spicer (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013). @free.kindle.com emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. /FontFile2 8 0 R 1965. Product Identifiers. Spicer was born in Los Angeles, California in 1925 to Midwestern parents and raised in a Calvinist home. - P.Gizzi] Complete program (58:03): MP3 Spicer reads Language (44:43): MP3 Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations. Building a community of authors and readers to discuss the latest research and develop new ideas. 6, No. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. What he giveth in self-review he taketh away in a sort of holy thundering shyness thats more Jerome than Francis. 0000022982 00000 n 41 0 R 43 0 R 45 0 R 47 0 R 49 0 R 51 0 R 53 0 R 55 0 R The Holy Grail by. 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. 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 . endobj /Filter /FlateDecode Using your mobile phone camera - scan the code below and download the Kindle app. 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 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. 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." >> He was the elder of two sons. Jack Spicer. The uncollected Poetry and Plays of Jack Spicer, Wesleyan University Press, to be published December 2021. Wide-Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965. 49 0 obj He felt and expressed the sense of there being an Other who dictated his poems, whom he sometimes humorously identified as a Martian. 0000037703 00000 n /Flags 5 in the broad and interdisciplinary area of "theory and history of cultural production," . Publishing with us to make your research visible to the widest possible audience. /Marked true Wonderfully likable in his muscular, no-bullshit manner, and yet in a second hes gone, just as he originally intended. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings. stream Published online by Cambridge University Press: 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. Readers will undoubtedly find it not simple at all. He died in 1965 virtually unrecognized, yet in the following years his work and thought have attracted and intrigued an international audience. Taylor-Callier, Lucinda: Dictation, the Outside and the Dead: Elements for a Necropolis, Master of Arts by Research (MARes) thesis, University of Kent, 2017. Boise, Idaho: Boise State University Press, 1991. 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. Use of this Web site signifies your agreement to the terms and conditions. Jack Spicer - "the holy grail". A collection of poems and essays by LGBTQ+ poets on topics and themes of identity, gender, and sexuality. /CIDSystemInfo << Spicer was not a very happy poet. The Holy Grail by Jack Spicer Write The First Customer Review. 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). In 1998, Wesleyan University Press published The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer, edited by Peter Gizziand Kevin Killian. 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). % LGBTQ love poetry by and for the queer community. endobj /Descent -1 Wilhelmus Johannes Lukkenaer. His parents, Dorothy Clause and John Lovely Spicer, were Midwesterners who met and married in Hollywood and ran a small hotel business. 0000022027 00000 n 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. << for primarily professional audiences (e.g., in law or medicine). It also analyzed reviews to verify trustworthiness. In The Textbook of Poetry, Spicer further develops his notion of the dictation of poems. >> Changing narrators, shifting time periods, the authors use of jokes and lapsus linguae and folk songs, all conspire to create what Spicer called an uncomfortable music.. After Lorca gained access to the field and established the direction of the poetry /BaseFont /GlyphLessFont Bibliography 47 33 /Ascent 1000 The noise without an audience. Spicer. 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). Then enter the name part Eliot, T. S.: The Complete Poems and Plays, edited by Valerie Eliot (London: Guild Publishing, 1987). 1, Jack Spicer. /MarkInfo << Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. A new compilation of Jack Spicers uncollected work deepens our understanding of the seminal cult poet. Spicer wrote the poems in his first book using the ideas he introduced and developed during his 1957 workshop. 0000023186 00000 n /Type /Font university presses. . 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. 0000043965 00000 n 1 0 obj endobj Holy grail " le 12me album de JAY-Z. : 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. 492-525). Spicer, Jack: My vocabulary did this to me. 0000145207 00000 n Jack Spicer has 33 books on Goodreads with 6144 ratings. 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. endobj The uncollected Poetry and Plays of Jack Spicer, Wesleyan University Press, to be published December 2021. AbeBooks.com: The Holy Grail: First edition. The collected poetry of Jack Spicer, edited by Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2008). Jack Spicer's most popular book is My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry. Based on recordings from the Spicer estate. P4!97 (gO s*DU@DFjb "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. 0000024595 00000 n Spicer's own poetry never completely lacks sense or meaning, however. 0 0000037734 00000 n 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. His first such grouping, After Lorca, uses Federico Garca Lorcas poems as a jumping-off point. XX| _!/17k[@ d@ oR(olY@?h p0MBL`&#L`+8B38@LU T#[D@vi6`, OY@q/QbpY. We will keep fighting for all libraries - stand with us! Boise, Idaho: Boise State University Press, 1991. >> Sorry, there was a problem loading this page. Bit of an odd one (and hard to find). Now this comprehensive biography gives a pivotal poet his due. >> 'Cryptic' would be a better characteristic. 1, Jack Spicer. Although Spicer is often viewed as a Surrealist, this attitude toward dictation sets his works apart from those of earlier Surrealist poets. 0000024140 00000 n magnitude of the journals program within the Press is unique among American on the Internet. 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. >> We have it second-hand. Copyright 2021 Authors retain the copyright of this article. does also publish two journals of advanced mathematics and a few publications Jack Spicer (January 30, 1925 - August 17, 1965) wrote a poetry of imagistic and conceptual juxtaposition reminiscent, at times, of Dadaist randomness. /BaseFont /GlyphLessFont /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 The collected poetry of Jack Spicer, edited by Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2008). ), Find out more about saving to your Kindle. 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. (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! /FontDescriptor 7 0 R Blaser, Robin: The Collected Books of Jack Spicer (Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1999). 355 - 365 In recent years, it has developed its strongest reputation Boyd, Nan Alamilla. Major Works In the 1950s, they're still waiting. >> /StemV 80 Request Permissions. Jack Spicer (1925-1965) was a poet, essayist, and translator. please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. Spicer, Jack, Blaser, Robin and Granger, John: A Plan for a Book on Tarot, boundary 2, Vol. Mayhew, Jonathan. After stating Metaphors are not for humans, Spicer writes this short paragraph: The wires dance in the winds of the noise our poems make. Totally corrupt. /Registry (Adobe) Publisher. My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer, also edited by Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian, appeared in 2010. Foster, Edward Halsey. 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. Creation date. 10.11648/j.ijla.20210904.11 3.88 avg rating 8 ratings published 1964 3 editions. >> Jack: The House that Jack Built. << : 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. /Nums [ 0 << xc`d``bh``fP7 CpsA[>cFqyNA'~I\yf;`z_*n"-Y/Z $O|6Nl R8"E6VGUkR%o WK.EWF NM;Yz}3s2VNRe/yCrJ Jack Spicer. Challener, Scott: Addressing Alien Worlds: Publics and Persons in the Poetry of Jack Spicer (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, Contemporary Literature, 2017, Vol. Hanover, N.H.: Wesleyan University Press, 1998. One of the most obvious elements of Spicer's poetry is its frequent and at times near obsessive recourse to myth and legend. . To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we dont use a simple average. stream Is part of the set. 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. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Jonas, Hans: The Gnostic Religion The Message of the Alien God & the Beginnings of Christianity (Beacon Press, Boston, MA 1958, reprinted 2001. 51 (2), pp. xyqfy=3||g-T& Q'JGTBDy1!"'"I, P Ba tWwUoD`o\lc//x.~l?zpc. 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