. 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'. Copyright 2021 Authors retain the copyright of this article. 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. xmj0~ Spicer was not a very happy poet. /ToUnicode 6 0 R 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. /Supplement 0 Spicer acted as a mentor and teacher to these young poets by running poetry workshops and providing (sometimes caustic) advice for young poets. /Filter /FlateDecode 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. Challener, Scott: Addressing Alien Worlds: Publics and Persons in the Poetry of Jack Spicer (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, Contemporary Literature, 2017, Vol. Spicer, Jack. In addition to dictation, he arrived at the idea of the poem-series, or book, which is a larger form that incorporates and helps give meaning to the individual, component poems. <> 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. 492-525). Render date: 2023-04-17T08:22:20.274Z 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). - P.Gizzi] Complete program (58:03): MP3 Spicer reads Language (44:43): MP3 Use of this Web site signifies your agreement to the terms and conditions. @kindle.com emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply. After leading the workshop in San Francisco in 1957, Spicer never managed to depart completely from teaching about his chosen subject: what poetry is and is not, and how it is written, or rather dictated. To save content items to your account, Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. Copyright 2012 -- Science Publishing Group All rights reserved. Product Identifiers. 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. Katz, Daniel: Be Brave To Things. >> >> Totally corrupt. Copyright 2012- Science Publishing Group All rights reserved. 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. 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. on August 25, 2022, The Holy Grail - poetry book by Jack Spicer published by White Rabbit Press, 1964, There are no reviews yet. Spicer helped to form the 6 Gallery with five painter friends in 1954. %PDF-1.5 /Filter /FlateDecode 24-29. Full content visible, double tap to read brief content. /CapHeight 1000 He considered true poetry to be dictated, and thus removed from the conscious control of the poet. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. Bibliography We will keep fighting for all libraries - stand with us! 310-340). xref Jack Spicer speaks and reads from Language (full work) The second of two shows edited by Mark Weiss in 1975. He was obsessed with possibilities he could only occasionally realize, and too aware of contemporary life to settle for anything less in his work than what he probably could not achieve. Spicer was born in Los Angeles, California in 1925 to Midwestern parents and raised in a Calvinist home. /FontFile2 8 0 R /Metadata 406 0 R His first such grouping, After Lorca, uses Federico Garca Lorcas poems as a jumping-off point. /FontDescriptor 7 0 R /Lang (eng) To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we dont use a simple average. For twenty years Killian's friends have been dying like flies--four flies on gray velvet, to borrow one of Argento's titles. We have it second-hand. Want to . /Type /Font The Collected Poems of Denise Levertov, ed. 0000021985 00000 n 0000022508 00000 n << @free.kindle.com emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. Go for it, Poor Claudia.) 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. Wave Upon wave. Duke University Press publishes approximately one hundred books per year and Content may require purchase if you do not have access. 0000143586 00000 n Because the poems were written for ghosts. Total loading time: 0 But Spicer does not want to be more explicit. Spicer, Jack, Blaser, Robin and Granger, John: A Plan for a Book on Tarot, boundary 2, Vol. endobj 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 . A new compilation of Jack Spicers uncollected work deepens our understanding of the seminal cult poet. Spicer's own poetry never completely lacks sense or meaning, however. (Duke University Press 1977), pp. It is composed of seven sections, each containing seven poems. For Spicer, the poet acts as a receptive host for language, rather than as an agent of self-expression. 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. Unable to add item to List. "The Holy Grail" was originally published 50 years ago by White Rabbit Press. 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 . . Has data issue: false Based on recordings from the Spicer estate. 1977 Duke University Press The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer. 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. boundary 2 Jack Spicer has 33 books on Goodreads with 6144 ratings. Poems that serve as letters to the world. 7 Dans son dernier chapitre, en vue d'une synthse thorique du mythe percevalien, C. Imperiali fait remonter la surface les mythmes fondamentaux qui caractrisent la matire de Perceval et qui sont susceptibles d'inspirer les crivains et potes de tout temps : le nice (le simple, l'idiot) ; l'assemblage des motifs du . 0000037734 00000 n 3.88 avg rating 8 ratings published 1964 3 editions. From his 1957 book After Lorca onward, Spicer wrote what he described as "dictated" poetry. In 2009, My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer won the American Book Award for poetry. Based on recordings from the Spicer estate. /Contents 50 0 R endobj In his 1965 Vancouver Lectures, he illustrated this process by claiming he received his poetry from Martian sources, from the dead, and by likening the poet to a radio receiving transmissions. Katz, Daniel: Be Brave To Things. 6, No. Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring poets Julia Bloch, CA Conrad, and Rachel Blau Duplessis. 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. 1 0 obj ODonell-Smith, Daniel: Vox ex machina: towards a digital poetics of the disembodied voice, Doctoral thesis, Birkbeck, University of London, 2017. Granger, John: The Idea of the alien in Jack Spicers dictated books, Thesis, Department of English, Simon Fraser University 1982. 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 . /Nums [ 0 << One of the most obvious elements of Spicer's poetry is its frequent and at times near obsessive recourse to myth and legend. (1925, tats-Unis - 1965, tats-Unis) Main title. 41 0 R 43 0 R 45 0 R 47 0 R 49 0 R 51 0 R 53 0 R 55 0 R 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. 0000022717 00000 n 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. endobj Publishing with us to make your research visible to the widest possible audience. 0000144543 00000 n After Lorca gained access to the field and established the direction of the poetry 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. Although Spicer is often viewed as a Surrealist, this attitude toward dictation sets his works apart from those of earlier Surrealist poets. At Berkeley Spicer studied linguistics, finishing all but his dissertation for a PhD in Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse. Publisher. /DW 500 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. Readers will undoubtedly find it not simple at all. Mayhew, Jonathan. /Type /Font 8 0 obj 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). 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.. 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. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. Addeddate 2022-08-25 20:55:05 Identifier jack-spicer-the-holy-grail Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s2hwv2r5pb5 Ocr tesseract 5.2.0-1-gc42a Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Cyrillic Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.8218 Is it, then, all worth it? AbeBooks.com: The Holy Grail: First edition. %%EOF 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. 57 0 R 59 0 R 61 0 R 63 0 R 65 0 R 67 0 R 69 0 R 71 0 R Please try again. Spicer, Jack: My vocabulary did this to me. . ), rdite pour la 1re fois en version vinyle " Magna Carta. %PDF-1.5 /BaseFont /GlyphLessFont 47 0 obj All the same, the lines themselves have a character indistinguishable from Spicers other poetry. Spicer, Jack: Citroenen, gedichten en zeewier [Lemons, poems and seaweed], translated, with an afterword by Jan H. Mysjkin (Bleiswijk: Uitgeverij Vleugels, 2018). Lukkenaer, Pim and Schmitz, Jacques: Jack Spicers De Oceaan, a lost book, Berlin/Rotterdam 2018. 0000043965 00000 n Jack: The House that Jack Built. 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. Search the history of over 804 billion Brief content visible, double tap to read full content. Jack Spicer (January 30, 1925 - August 17, 1965) was an American poet often identified with the San Francisco Renaissance. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. 0000022982 00000 n % 'Cryptic' would be a better characteristic. 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. 0000080719 00000 n 0000142656 00000 n Wilhelmus Johannes Lukkenaer. 24-29. LGBTQ love poetry by and for the queer community. /Length 220 Spicer, Jack: My vocabulary did this to me. Spicers own poetry never completely lacks sense or meaning, however. /Pages 2 0 R The Holy Grail - poetry book by Jack Spicer published by White Rabbit Press, 1964. Jack Spicer (January 30, 1925 August 17, 1965) wrote a poetry of imagistic and conceptual juxtaposition reminiscent, at times, of Dadaist randomness. 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. 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. He spent most of his writing-life in San Francisco. /Type /FontDescriptor Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Jack Spicer (1925-1965) was a poet, essayist, and translator. Apocryphal Lorca: Translation, Parody, Kitsch. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Jack Spicer, Poetics, the Holy Grail, Arthurian Literature, Gnosticism, Initiation, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. From The holy grail : the book of the death of Arthur. : Never was able to get stanza 5 of the book of Lancelot out of my head. ), Find out more about saving to your Kindle. /Length1 572 /Registry (Adobe) Home Literature Analysis of Jack Spicers Poems, By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on July 16, 2020 ( 0 ). x :hh Use of this Web site signifies your agreement to the terms and conditions. Poems from and about the American involvement in Vietnam. 1, Jack Spicer. Boyd, Nan Alamilla. Its that poised ineptitude and awkwardness of the anti-academic teacher, the scholar of linguistics who cant say what he knows in formal language, and has chosen to be very naive and look and hear and do. He felt and expressed the sense of there being an Other who dictated his poems, whom he sometimes humorously identified as a Martian. Hanover, N.H.: Wesleyan University Press, 1998. To save content items to your account, /CIDToGIDMap 5 0 R 492-525). 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 . Boise, Idaho: Boise State University Press, 1991. Katz, Daniel: The Poetry of Jack Spicer (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013). Help others learn more about this product by uploading a video! My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer Starting at $15.45. endobj The Holy Grail is the summation of Jack Spicer's explorations into perception-as-love; it is a complete phenomenology of purpose which culminates his attention to the poetic act in all his previous books. The Holy Grail by Jack Spicer Write The First Customer Review. /FitWindow true The relative Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for THE COLLECTED BOOKS OF JACK SPICER *Excellent Condition* at the best online prices at eBay! 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. The Holy Grail After stating Metaphors are not for humans, Spicer writes this short paragraph: The wires dance in the winds of the noise our poems make. Foster, Edward Halsey. Challener, Scott: Addressing Alien Worlds: Publics and Persons in the Poetry of Jack Spicer (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, Contemporary Literature, 2017, Vol. Eliot, T. S.: The Complete Poems and Plays, edited by Valerie Eliot (London: Guild Publishing, 1987). Jack Spicers Impossible Quest for the Holy Grail, DOI: He was the elder of two sons. Jack Spicer - "the holy grail". The Holy Grail (1962), which includes seven "books" with seven untitled poems each, is the most balanced and structurally harmonious of these works, even as the clash of its voices, images, and beats creates, as Spicer himself acknowledged, an "uncomfortable music." Wide-Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965. Blaser, Robin: The Collected Books of Jack Spicer (Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1999). 0000024140 00000 n Blaser, Robin: The Fire: Collected Essays (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006). Blaser, Robin: The Collected Books of Jack Spicer (Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1999). That is how we dead men write to each other. Spicers inclination to engage in verbal discovery, often through use of puns, would reappear in many later works. /FontBBox [ 0 0 500 1000 ] Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service. You might have noticed that methods like insert, remove or sort that only modify the list have no return value printed - they return the default None. 0000001335 00000 n 51 (2), pp. Request Permissions. Need a transcript of this episode? 5 0 obj 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. The noise without an audience. endstream 50 0 obj Schmitz, Jacques: Jack Spicers Holy Grail, translated, Berlin/Rotterdam 2018. ODonell-Smith, Daniel: Vox ex machina: towards a digital poetics of the disembodied voice, Doctoral thesis, Birkbeck, University of London, 2017. Then enter the name part 4 0 obj Spicer acted as a mentor and teacher to these young poets by running poetry workshops and providing (sometimes caustic) advice for young poets. /Subtype /CIDFontType2 Request a transcript here. 0000037671 00000 n /DisplayDocTitle true Foster, Edward Halsey. One of the most obvious elements of Spicer's poetry is its frequent and at times near obsessive recourse to myth and legend. Readers will undoubtedly find it not simple at all. 0000000972 00000 n Weston, Jessie L.: The Quest of the Holy Grail (1913) (photostatic reprint Barnes & Noble, New York 1964. Hlibchuck, Geoffrey: From Typology to Topology: On Jack Spicer (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, Contemporary literature, 2010-07-01, Vol. /Ascent 1000 Por ejemplo, [None, 'hello', 10] no se puede ordenar ya que los enteros no se pueden . 'Cryptic' would be a better characteristic. Institute for Dutch Literature, Humanities Faculty, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands, International Journal of Literature and Arts, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Spicer. Feature Flags: { Creation date. /Encoding /Identity-H In 1998, Wesleyan University Press published The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer, edited by Peter Gizziand Kevin Killian. for primarily professional audiences (e.g., in law or medicine). >> Get help and learn more about the design. Hanover, N.H.: Wesleyan University Press, 1998. 0000037766 00000 n << Hlibchuck, Geoffrey: From Typology to Topology: On Jack Spicer (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, Contemporary literature, 2010-07-01, Vol. wb 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 up to the poet's early death, including Admonitions (1958), A Book of Music (1958), Billy the Kid (1958), and The Holy Grail (1962). Jack Spicer's most popular book is My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry. Katz, Daniel: The Poetry of Jack Spicer (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013). 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. Weston, Jessie L.: The Quest of the Holy Grail (1913) (photostatic reprint Barnes & Noble, New York 1964. Jack Spicer. : 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. 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. From his 1957 book After Lorca onward, Spicer wrote what he described as dictated poetry. thirty journals, primarily in the humanities and social sciences, though it The uncollected Poetry and Plays of Jack Spicer, Wesleyan University Press, to be published December 2021. To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure coreplatform@cambridge.org 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 Be the first one to, Advanced embedding details, examples, and help, Terms of Service (last updated 12/31/2014). 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. The friendship among these three poets would develop into what they referred to as The Berkeley Renaissance, which would in turn become the San Francisco Renaissance after Spicer, Blaser, and Duncan moved to San Francisco in the 1950s. <<7694DA57FCEC43BC1740C7F802125C7E>]/Prev 241907>> 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. please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. 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. 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. ", A Poem For Dada Day At The Place April 1, 1958, California Lecture: from Poetry and Politics, Vancouver Lectures: from "Dictation and 'A Textbook of Poetry'". 73 0 R 75 0 R 77 0 R 79 0 R 81 0 R 83 0 R 85 0 R ] The story says that one day a Fisher King will rise to heal the land. The Holy Grail was originally published 50 years ago by White Rabbit Press. 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). [The opening comments are from the 4th Lecture on Poetry & Politics at the Berkeley Conference on July 14th 1965. /Length 333 In writing Language, Spicer was succumbing yet again to the heuristic impulse and talking about poetry as a way of teaching about poetry. Filter Results Shipping. << 05 August 2013. He must have been a great spirit.. The text is presented as prose, in paragraphs that are fully justified, rather than left-justified as is standard for poetry. 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'. 0000000015 00000 n In the 1950s, they're still waiting. Spicer, Jack: Citroenen, gedichten en zeewier [Lemons, poems and seaweed], translated, with an afterword by Jan H. 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