Blaser, Robin: The Collected Books of Jack Spicer (Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1999). . 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. In The Textbook of Poetry, Spicer further develops his notion of the dictation of poems. 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! Institute for Dutch Literature, Humanities Faculty, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands, International Journal of Literature and Arts, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. wb Spicer was born in Los Angeles, California in 1925 to Midwestern parents and raised in a Calvinist home. The relative ), rdite pour la 1re fois en version vinyle " Magna Carta. Is he concealing something? 0000024595 00000 n 1965. Read instantly on your browser with Kindle for Web. Yes. He felt and expressed the sense of there being an Other who dictated his poems, whom he sometimes humorously identified as a Martian. /Length 220 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. Find out more about saving to your Kindle. >> Jack Spicer (January 30, 1925 - August 17, 1965) was an American poet often identified with the San Francisco Renaissance. Try again. @kindle.com emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply. . The poet did not, however, leave us without some clues, two of . [The opening comments are from the 4th Lecture on Poetry & Politics at the Berkeley Conference on July 14th 1965. /Registry (Adobe) 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. Godine Publisher, David . We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. The Holy Grail - poetry book by Jack Spicer published by White Rabbit Press, 1964. (Duke University Press 1977), pp. and is known in general as a publisher willing to take chances with nontraditional 0000043965 00000 n Based on recordings from the Spicer estate. <> Spicer and Bob Dylan both re-writing "The Ranger's Command," Spicer writing The Holy Grail and Dylan "The Times, They Are a-Changing." "The order is rapidly fading And the first one now will later be last, for the times they are a-changin 0000001335 00000 n 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). >> /CapHeight 1000 Wilhelmus Johannes Lukkenaer. << endstream This item is part of a JSTOR Collection. /BaseFont /GlyphLessFont /Type /FontDescriptor and interdisciplinary publications, both books and journals. %PDF-1.5 >> 4 0 obj >> ] 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. "useRatesEcommerce": false stream Copyright 2021 Authors retain the copyright of this article. Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service. Bibliography Jack Spicer speaks and reads from Language (full work) The second of two shows edited by Mark Weiss in 1975. Jack Spicers Impossible Quest for the Holy Grail. stream Wave Upon wave. 10.11648/j.ijla.20210904.11 /FontDescriptor 7 0 R /OutputIntents [ 284 0 R ] 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. 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. 8 0 obj Jack Spicer has 33 books on Goodreads with 6144 ratings. . hasContentIssue false, The Early Poetry: Cartography, Seriality, Time, The Metasexual City: Politics, Nonsense, Poetry. 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 . <> 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. As a native Californian, Spicer tended to view the Beats as usurpers and criticized the poetry and self-promotion of poets like Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, as well as the Beat ethos in general. Boyd, Nan Alamilla. 0000142883 00000 n 0000000015 00000 n Please try again. please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings. 0000144543 00000 n 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. Jack Spicer. : stream Jack Spicers Impossible Quest for the Holy Grail, DOI: 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. Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring poets Julia Bloch, CA Conrad, and Rachel Blau Duplessis. "The Holy Grail" was originally published 50 years ago by White Rabbit Press. 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. 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 /MarkInfo << Bit of an odd one (and hard to find). 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. 0000080719 00000 n /Length 150 /Marked true Eliot, T. S.: The Complete Poems and Plays, edited by Valerie Eliot (London: Guild Publishing, 1987). Is part of the set. /ToUnicode 6 0 R . The poets understanding does not shape that work, however. /PageLabels << 1 0 obj 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). In the 1950s, they're still waiting. The collected poetry of Jack Spicer, edited by Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2008). Foster, Edward Halsey. Home Literature Analysis of Jack Spicers Poems, By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on July 16, 2020 ( 0 ). Katz, Daniel: The Poetry of Jack Spicer (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013). Wide-Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965. The collected poetry of Jack Spicer, edited by Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2008). 57 0 R 59 0 R 61 0 R 63 0 R 65 0 R 67 0 R 69 0 R 71 0 R does also publish two journals of advanced mathematics and a few publications 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. 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. , Paperback Is he concealing something? It is composed of seven sections, each containing seven poems. ."A captivating historical thriller, a great spine-tingling romp through history in search of the Holy Grail. 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. Request a transcript here. 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). Hanover, N.H.: Wesleyan University Press, 1998. Spicer wrote the poems in his first book using the ideas he introduced and developed during his 1957 workshop. The Collected Poems of Denise Levertov, ed. Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. endobj Using your mobile phone camera - scan the code below and download the Kindle app. Use of this Web site signifies your agreement to the terms and conditions. Schmitz, Jacques: Jack Spicers Holy Grail, translated, Berlin/Rotterdam 2018. in the broad and interdisciplinary area of "theory and history of cultural production," Hanover, N.H.: Wesleyan University Press, 1998. 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). Katz, Daniel: Be Brave To Things. Shoemaker, Robert Eric: After After Lorca: Anamnesis and Magic between Jack Spicer and Federico Garca Lorca, Print & Online, 2019. 'Cryptic' would be a better characteristic. /Ascent 1000 university presses. The Holy Grail was originally published 50 years ago by White Rabbit Press. Need a transcript of this episode? Spicer, Jack: Citroenen, gedichten en zeewier [Lemons, poems and seaweed], translated, with an afterword by Jan H. Mysjkin (Bleiswijk: Uitgeverij Vleugels, 2018). 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