One of the most obvious elements of Spicer's poetry is its frequent and at times near obsessive recourse to myth and legend. endobj 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'. Learn more. 58 (4), pp. /DescendantFonts [ 4 0 R ] Based on recordings from the Spicer estate. Jack Spicer. But Spicer does not want to be more explicit. Jonas, Hans: The Gnostic Religion The Message of the Alien God & the Beginnings of Christianity (Beacon Press, Boston, MA 1958, reprinted 2001. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. /Count 39 /Metadata 406 0 R 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. 5 0 obj For Spicer, the poet acts as a receptive host for language, rather than as an agent of self-expression. Very good in tan wrappers printed in red and black. % << 57 0 R 59 0 R 61 0 R 63 0 R 65 0 R 67 0 R 69 0 R 71 0 R The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer. Published online by Cambridge University Press: Apocryphal Lorca: Translation, Parody, Kitsch. 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. 24-29. Blaser, Robin: The Collected Books of Jack Spicer (Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1999). : endstream 0000022982 00000 n woolstation xc`d``bh``fP7 Jack Spicer (January 30, 1925 - August 17, 1965) was an American poet often identified with the San Francisco Renaissance. 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. 0000021963 00000 n 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. Feature Flags: { <> 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. Extending beyond the postmodern, boundary 2 approaches problems of literature and culture from a number of politically, historically, and theoretically informed perspectives. Bit of an odd one (and hard to find). The text is presented as prose, in paragraphs that are fully justified, rather than left-justified as is standard for poetry. university presses. In The Textbook of Poetry, Spicer further develops his notion of the dictation of poems. for primarily professional audiences (e.g., in law or medicine). Ayant uniquement fait l'objet d'une version CD, lors de sa sortie officielle en Juillet 2013, cet album doit tre l'une plus ambitieuse . 1, Jack Spicer. Top subscription boxes right to your door, 1996-2023, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates, Learn more how customers reviews work on Amazon. /BaseFont /GlyphLessFont My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer, also edited by Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian, appeared in 2010. 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. ODonell-Smith, Daniel: Vox ex machina: towards a digital poetics of the disembodied voice, Doctoral thesis, Birkbeck, University of London, 2017. Challener, Scott: Addressing Alien Worlds: Publics and Persons in the Poetry of Jack Spicer (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, Contemporary Literature, 2017, Vol. [1] In 2009, My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer won the American Book Award for poetry. Creation date. 58 (4), pp. Jack Spicers Impossible Quest for the Holy Grail, DOI: 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. (Jack Spicer, The Holy Grail [written 1962, published 1964]) 12 Allen Sherman, who died . >> 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 . He considered true poetry to be dictated, and thus removed from the conscious control of the poet. We have it second-hand. This item is part of a JSTOR Collection. He was the elder of two sons. . The story says that one day a Fisher King will rise to heal the land. 1 0 obj The Holy Grail was originally published 50 years ago by White Rabbit Press. Wilhelmus Johannes Lukkenaer. . 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. ), Find out more about saving to your Kindle. Eligible for Free Shipping; Expedited Shipping Available; Item Condition . Read instantly on your browser with Kindle for Web. Based on recordings from the Spicer estate. please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. /Length1 572 49 0 obj 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. /Filter /FlateDecode 50 0 obj Weston, Jessie L.: The Quest of the Holy Grail (1913) (photostatic reprint Barnes & Noble, New York 1964. 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. : >> 0000001335 00000 n Poets chasing poets, Dean Young vs. Tony Hoagland, a theory of hats, and more. stream The better the poem, the less responsible the poet is for it. - P.Gizzi] Complete program (58:03): MP3 Spicer reads Language (44:43): MP3 , White Rabbit Press; First Edition (January 1, 1964), Language Please try again. He spent most of his writing-life in San Francisco. Request a transcript here. Copyright 2012 -- Science Publishing Group All rights reserved. Spicer, Jack. 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 . . : Never was able to get stanza 5 of the book of Lancelot out of my head. Spicer, Jack, Blaser, Robin and Granger, John: A Plan for a Book on Tarot, boundary 2, Vol. Search the history of over 804 billion 10.11648/j.ijla.20210904.11 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. 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. "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. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we dont use a simple average. %PDF-1.5 0000143586 00000 n in the broad and interdisciplinary area of "theory and history of cultural production," /Ascent 1000 0000024595 00000 n >> . /Encoding /Identity-H 51 (2), pp. The uncollected Poetry and Plays of Jack Spicer, Wesleyan University Press, to be published December 2021. 0000023529 00000 n does also publish two journals of advanced mathematics and a few publications For terms and use, please refer to our Terms and Conditions . 0000000972 00000 n << Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. <> 0000080719 00000 n Using your mobile phone camera - scan the code below and download the Kindle app. >> is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings /Length 333 Boise, Idaho: Boise State University Press, 1991. 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 poetry of Jack Spicer, edited by Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2008). 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. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. /ToUnicode 6 0 R Mayhew, Jonathan. In 1998, Wesleyan University Press published The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer, edited by Peter Gizziand Kevin Killian. His parents, Dorothy Clause and John Lovely Spicer, were Midwesterners who met and married in Hollywood and ran a small hotel business. Spicer, Jack, Blaser, Robin and Granger, John: A Plan for a Book on Tarot, boundary 2, Vol. Jack Spicer was born John Lester Spicer on January 30, 1925, in Los Angeles. Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. Use of this Web site signifies your agreement to the terms and conditions. Jack Spicer has 33 books on Goodreads with 6144 ratings. >> ] Sorry, there was a problem loading this page. Spicer acted as a mentor and teacher to these young poets by running poetry workshops and providing (sometimes caustic) advice for young poets. xmj0~ /Subtype /Type0 /Pages 2 0 R The book begins with a fictitious introduction that is presented as having been written by Garca Lorca himself, twenty years after his own death. 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, unlike his contemporaries Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Gary Snyder, was a poet who disdained publishing and relished his role as a social outcast. 0000145207 00000 n Blaser, Robin: The Fire: Collected Essays (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006). >> /Type /FontDescriptor 310-340). by Paul A. Lacey and Anne Dewey, Also author of Homage to Creeley (poems), c. 1950's, and The Ballad of the Dead Woodcutter. Eliot, T. S.: The Complete Poems and Plays, edited by Valerie Eliot (London: Guild Publishing, 1987). please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. His first such grouping, After Lorca, uses Federico Garca Lorcas poems as a jumping-off point. The Holy Grail web pages 3 0 obj << 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. ODonell-Smith, Daniel: Vox ex machina: towards a digital poetics of the disembodied voice, Doctoral thesis, Birkbeck, University of London, 2017. 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. 47 0 obj 47 33 Please try again. >> /Contents 50 0 R In 2009, My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer won the American Book Award for poetry. 0000000015 00000 n and is known in general as a publisher willing to take chances with nontraditional Poems that serve as letters to the world. Ellingham, Lewis, and Kevin Killian. /Lang (eng) 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. His poems are also intentional, however, with their intent often arising from a strong impulse to teach. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. Seven sections of seven pages each, each with a separate title-page printed on different stock in black and red.