<> Find out more about saving content to Dropbox. At Berkeley Spicer studied linguistics, finishing all but his dissertation for a PhD in Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse. 0000023529 00000 n 0000037703 00000 n Read instantly on your browser with Kindle for Web. In 2009, My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer won the American Book Award for poetry. >> . 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). He is often associated with the San . 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. Lukkenaer, Pim and Schmitz, Jacques: Jack Spicers De Oceaan, a lost book, Berlin/Rotterdam 2018. on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Early life [ edit] 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 Katz, Daniel: The Poetry of Jack Spicer (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013). Use of this Web site signifies your agreement to the terms and conditions. /Type /Font If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Spicer, Jack: My vocabulary did this to me. : 0000022717 00000 n 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. How Jack Spicer broke through the pieties of the avant-garde. 0000022508 00000 n Acne is often associated with . and interdisciplinary publications, both books and journals. Blaser, Robin: The Fire: Collected Essays (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006). Need a transcript of this episode? %%EOF 50 0 obj 3 0 obj 25 0 R 27 0 R 29 0 R 31 0 R 33 0 R 35 0 R 37 0 R 39 0 R Hanover, N.H.: Wesleyan University Press, 1998. web pages XX| _!/17k[@ d@ oR(olY@?h p0MBL`&#L`+8B38@LU T#[D@vi6`, OY@q/QbpY. 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. << 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. 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. The book begins with a fictitious introduction that is presented as having been written by Garca Lorca himself, twenty years after his own death. Spicer, Jack: Citroenen, gedichten en zeewier [Lemons, poems and seaweed], translated, with an afterword by Jan H. Mysjkin (Bleiswijk: Uitgeverij Vleugels, 2018). There was a problem loading your book clubs. /Ascent 1000 << Spicer. Holy Grail, The by Spicer, Jack and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at AbeBooks.com. Creation date. Jack Spicers Impossible Quest for the Holy Grail. 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. Copyright 2012- Science Publishing Group All rights reserved. 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). /DisplayDocTitle true To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we dont use a simple average. Please try again. >> For terms and use, please refer to our Terms and Conditions After stating Metaphors are not for humans, Spicer writes this short paragraph: The wires dance in the winds of the noise our poems make. In writing Language, Spicer was succumbing yet again to the heuristic impulse and talking about poetry as a way of teaching about poetry. 0000021985 00000 n >> 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. Jack Spicer was born John Lester Spicer on January 30, 1925, in Los Angeles. The Holy Grail - poetry book by Jack Spicer published by White Rabbit Press, 1964. Jack Spicers Impossible Quest for the Holy Grail. The relative 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. /Type /Pages /Lang (eng) endobj Request a transcript here. Poems from and about the American involvement in Vietnam. 41 0 R 43 0 R 45 0 R 47 0 R 49 0 R 51 0 R 53 0 R 55 0 R in the broad and interdisciplinary area of "theory and history of cultural production," 47 33 does also publish two journals of advanced mathematics and a few publications There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. 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Be the first one to, Advanced embedding details, examples, and help, Terms of Service (last updated 12/31/2014). 0000021963 00000 n Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations. 0000037766 00000 n It is composed of seven sections, each containing seven poems. . He considered true poetry to be "dictated," and thus removed from the conscious control of the poet. Bit of an odd one (and hard to find). /CIDSystemInfo << Third Man Records, le mythique label de JACK WHITE (THE WHITE STRIPES, THE DEAD WEATHER, THE KILLS etc. /ItalicAngle 0 /StructTreeRoot 285 0 R x :hh [The opening comments are from the 4th Lecture on Poetry & Politics at the Berkeley Conference on July 14th 1965. of your Kindle email address below. << 73 0 R 75 0 R 77 0 R 79 0 R 81 0 R 83 0 R 85 0 R ] 4 0 obj ), rdite pour la 1re fois en version vinyle " Magna Carta. Spicer. 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. The better the poem, the less responsible the poet is for it. /Length1 572 >> His parents, Dorothy Clause and John Lovely Spicer, were Midwesterners who met and married in Hollywood and ran a small hotel business. [The opening comments are from the 4th Lecture on Poetry & Politics at the Berkeley Conference on July 14th 1965. 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). He spent most of his writing-life in San Francisco. 492-525). Spicer, Jack, Blaser, Robin and Granger, John: A Plan for a Book on Tarot, boundary 2, Vol. Katz, Daniel: The Poetry of Jack Spicer (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013). 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). The text is presented as prose, in paragraphs that are fully justified, rather than left-justified as is standard for poetry. Jonas, Hans: The Gnostic Religion The Message of the Alien God & the Beginnings of Christianity (Beacon Press, Boston, MA 1958, reprinted 2001. 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). 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. 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. magnitude of the journals program within the Press is unique among American 6, No. Extending beyond the postmodern, boundary 2 approaches problems of literature and culture from a number of politically, historically, and theoretically informed perspectives. >> From his 1957 book After Lorca onward, Spicer wrote what he described as "dictated" poetry. P4!97 (gO s*DU@DFjb But Spicer does not want to be more explicit. 0000024140 00000 n /Contents 50 0 R /CIDToGIDMap 5 0 R Contributor to The San Francisco Capitalist Bloodsucker-N: An Amalgam of the San Francisco Capitalist Bloodsucker, a Journal of Marxist Opinion and NThe Magazine of the Future, 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. "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. Based on recordings from the Spicer estate. ASIN >> ] : Jack Spicer. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive. 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. Spicer's own poetry never completely lacks sense or meaning, however. 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. 24-29. Building a community of authors and readers to discuss the latest research and develop new ideas. Readers will undoubtedly find it not simple at all. He was the elder of two sons. Sorry, there was a problem loading this page. Even the grail in The Holy Grail is presented in such a way as to give insight into poetry: The grail is the opposite of poetry/ Fills us up instead of using us as a cup the dead drink from. Some of Spicers continuing influence arises from the fact that he is so engaging and thought-provoking as a teacher, even when at his most enigmatic. My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer, also edited by Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian, appeared in 2010. 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. 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. Poets lend voices to current events and elections as they critique and defend the social and political issues of their day. 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. Render date: 2023-04-17T08:22:20.274Z Copyright 2021 Authors retain the copyright of this article. Lukkenaer, Pim and Schmitz, Jacques: Jack Spicers De Oceaan, a lost book, Berlin/Rotterdam 2018. Blaser, Robin: The Collected Books of Jack Spicer (Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1999). 0000037841 00000 n /OutputIntents [ 284 0 R ] Jack Spicer (January 30, 1925 - August 17, 1965) wrote a poetry of imagistic and conceptual juxtaposition reminiscent, at times, of Dadaist randomness. on the Internet. Use of this Web site signifies your agreement to the terms and conditions. "The Holy Grail" was originally published 50 years ago by White Rabbit Press. % /FontFile2 8 0 R Eliot, T. S.: The Complete Poems and Plays, edited by Valerie Eliot (London: Guild Publishing, 1987). Seven sections of seven pages each, each with a separate title-page printed on different stock in black and red. 3.88 avg rating 8 ratings published 1964 3 editions. 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. 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. trailer 0000022027 00000 n /FontBBox [ 0 0 500 1000 ] 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 . The imagination pictures the real. But Spicer does not want to be more explicit. Foster, Edward Halsey. /ViewerPreferences << /Filter /FlateDecode /Type /Font 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. Spicer, Jack: My vocabulary did this to me. 'Cryptic' would be a better characteristic. <> Fans of The Da Vinci Code . Jack: The House that Jack Built. boundary 2 6, No. 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. Filter Results Shipping. ODonell-Smith, Daniel: Vox ex machina: towards a digital poetics of the disembodied voice, Doctoral thesis, Birkbeck, University of London, 2017. We will keep fighting for all libraries - stand with us! Jack Spicer's most popular book is My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry. LGBTQ love poetry by and for the queer community. Jack Spicer. is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings Yes. << Download the free Kindle app and start reading Kindle books instantly on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. /DW 500 Jack Spicer speaks and reads from Language (full work) The second of two shows edited by Mark Weiss in 1975. 51 (2), pp. Eliot, T. S.: The Complete Poems and Plays, edited by Valerie Eliot (London: Guild Publishing, 1987). 0000144146 00000 n Hlibchuck, Geoffrey: From Typology to Topology: On Jack Spicer (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, Contemporary literature, 2010-07-01, Vol. This item is part of a JSTOR Collection. , White Rabbit Press; First Edition (January 1, 1964), Language 0 Taylor-Callier, Lucinda: Dictation, the Outside and the Dead: Elements for a Necropolis, Master of Arts by Research (MARes) thesis, University of Kent, 2017. ! 97 ( gO s * DU @ DFjb but Spicer does not want to be explicit. 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