Need a transcript of this episode? Ellingham, Lewis, and Kevin Killian. /StructTreeRoot 285 0 R on the Internet. Spicer's own poetry never completely lacks sense or meaning, however. In writing Language, Spicer was succumbing yet again to the heuristic impulse and talking about poetry as a way of teaching about poetry. /Length 150 The Holy Grail by Jack Spicer Write The First Customer Review. endobj Jack Spicer has 33 books on Goodreads with 6144 ratings. Shoemaker, Robert Eric: After After Lorca: Anamnesis and Magic between Jack Spicer and Federico Garca Lorca, Print & Online, 2019. Hostname: page-component-789cc574b8-dcfpl 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. 10.11648/j.ijla.20210904.11 We will keep fighting for all libraries - stand with us! Go for it, Poor Claudia.) Jack Spicers Impossible Quest for the Holy Grail, International Journal of Literature and Arts, The American poet Jack Spicer (1925-1965) called, in his second lecture for students in Vancouver, his serial poem. One of the most obvious elements of Spicer's poetry is its frequent and at times near obsessive recourse to myth and legend. 0000043965 00000 n stream Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. : , Publisher Spicer, Jack. Other poems, including the sequences Love Poems, Intermissions, Transformations, Phonemics, and Graphemics, intertwine Spicers idiosyncratic meditations on love and death, including again Kennedys death, with his continuing exploration of the nature of poetry. 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). 7 0 obj endobj Using your mobile phone camera - scan the code below and download the Kindle app. and interdisciplinary publications, both books and journals. Spicer believed that the dictated poem of necessity employs the materials present in the poets mind. 0000022982 00000 n /StemV 80 x :hh The Holy Grail by. /Ascent 1000 He considered true poetry to be dictated, and thus removed from the conscious control of the poet. 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. [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). endobj /Type /Pages 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. Spicer. Jack Spicer. His first such grouping, After Lorca, uses Federico Garca Lorcas poems as a jumping-off point. /Descent -1 In The Textbook of Poetry, Spicer further develops his notion of the dictation of poems. 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. For Spicer, the poet acts as a receptive host for language, rather than as an agent of self-expression. up to the poet's early death, including Admonitions (1958), A Book of Music (1958), Billy the Kid (1958), and The Holy Grail (1962). 0000023335 00000 n /Registry (Adobe) Katz, Daniel: The Poetry of Jack Spicer (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013). Wilhelmus Johannes Lukkenaer. 0000001335 00000 n 51 (2), pp. Duke University Press publishes approximately one hundred books per year and /Count 39 xyqfy=3||g-T& Q'JGTBDy1!"'"I, P Ba tWwUoD`o\lc//x.~l?zpc. 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Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Erec & Enide (Salt Modern Poets) by De Ath at the best online prices at eBay! Books by Jack Spicer. After Lorca gained access to the field and established the direction of the poetry Read instantly on your browser with Kindle for Web. 1 0 obj 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.. please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. /Type /Font To save content items to your account, (Jack Spicer, The Holy Grail [written 1962, published 1964]) 12 Allen Sherman, who died . From his 1957 book After Lorca onward, Spicer wrote what he described as dictated poetry. The Holy Grail - poetry book by Jack Spicer published by White Rabbit Press, 1964. Taylor-Callier, Lucinda: Dictation, the Outside and the Dead: Elements for a Necropolis, Master of Arts by Research (MARes) thesis, University of Kent, 2017. Bibliography In 2009, My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer won the American Book Award for poetry. P4!97 (gO s*DU@DFjb 0000024595 00000 n and is known in general as a publisher willing to take chances with nontraditional 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. A Textbook of Poetry was one of several books that appeared under a title that suggested a literary form other than what it actually was. It is composed of seven sections, each containing seven poems. trailer . 'Cryptic' would be a better characteristic. Please try again. Edited by Peter Gizzi. Unable to add item to List. 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. xc`d``bh``fP7 /FontFile2 8 0 R I have not words for him. An element of Platos concept of reality plays into the poem, with the inexpressible that Spicer cannot proclaim being akin to Platos Ideal, in that it descends to the real. Spicer even uses the Greek word logos, both in association with the name God (I mean the real God) and, simultaneously, divorced from the notion (I did not mean the real God). /FontDescriptor 7 0 R 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). 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). Wonderfully likable in his muscular, no-bullshit manner, and yet in a second hes gone, just as he originally intended. 58 (4), pp. From The holy grail : the book of the death of Arthur. 0000022027 00000 n "useRatesEcommerce": false Poems that serve as letters to the world. ), rdite pour la 1re fois en version vinyle " Magna Carta. >> /Ordering (Identity) 355 - 365 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. >> <> Extending beyond the postmodern, boundary 2 approaches problems of literature and culture from a number of politically, historically, and theoretically informed perspectives. 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). 0000024812 00000 n Jack Spicer's most popular book is My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry. 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. For Spicer, the poet acts as a receptive host for language, rather than as an agent of self-expression. /CIDSystemInfo << Uploaded by The Holy Grail was originally published 50 years ago by White Rabbit Press. 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. For terms and use, please refer to our Terms and Conditions /BaseFont /GlyphLessFont 0000000972 00000 n Readers will undoubtedly find it not simple at all. Because the poems were written for ghosts. Request Permissions. The better the poem, the less responsible the poet is for it. Filter Results Shipping. magnitude of the journals program within the Press is unique among American Use of this Web site signifies your agreement to the terms and conditions. My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer, also edited by Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian, appeared in 2010. The imagination pictures the real. in the broad and interdisciplinary area of "theory and history of cultural production," >> : Hanover, N.H.: Wesleyan University Press, 1998. /DisplayDocTitle true 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. 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. Request a transcript here. He is often associated with the San . The uncollected Poetry and Plays of Jack Spicer, Wesleyan University Press, to be published December 2021. 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 . web pages Fans of The Da Vinci Code . 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. Hlibchuck, Geoffrey: From Typology to Topology: On Jack Spicer (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, Contemporary literature, 2010-07-01, Vol. Wide-Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965. /Contents 50 0 R 1965. The noise without an audience. 0000142656 00000 n Jack Spicer. Boise, Idaho: Boise State University Press, 1991. Boise, Idaho: Boise State University Press, 1991. Katz, Daniel: Be Brave To Things. 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 was born in Los Angeles, California in 1925 to Midwestern parents and raised in a Calvinist home. 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'. 24-29. 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). 0000143586 00000 n 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). << 6, No. Institute for Dutch Literature, Humanities Faculty, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands, International Journal of Literature and Arts, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. That is how we dead men write to each other. 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