Books : Collected Books of Jack Spicer
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by: Jack Spicer
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780876852415
ISBN: 087685241X
Label: Black Sparrow Books
Manufacturer: Black Sparrow Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 382
Publication Date: 1980-06
Publisher: Black Sparrow Books
Sales Rank: 590023
Studio: Black Sparrow Books
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w/Blaser's essay 'The Practice of Outside'
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Rating: - "Heads Of the Town Up to the Aether" may be the best SF poem
ever written or collaged or dictated into existence even if the "imperial city"/ "civitas dei" could not recognize itself in these antilyrical and mock Spicerian deformations and post-Beat revelations into the "afterlife" ghosts and Logos/lowghosts and proud slums of 1960. If this is not US poetry equal to the severe decreations of Wallace Stevens in "The Rock," then I do not know what poesy is nor SF might be as imagined into a city of imagination, vision, and mongrel community.
Rating: - A bible of inspiration
This is a book of divinely inspired material. The poems obviously come from something transcendent; something undefinable (what Jack calls the Martians). Poets or artists of any sort should defintely have a copy, because like I say, it is a bible of inspiration.
Rating: - One of the great books of the 20th century
When Jack Spicer died in August, 1965, he was known only to initiates of the new American poetry. Since then, his reputation has grown posthumously in a fashion unequaled since Dickinson. This is the book on which this reputation rests, one of the most searing and terrifying (and beautiful) collections ever written in English.
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