The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer
Language: English
Published by Wesleyan University Press, 1998
- First Edition
- Softcover
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Good to Very Good. First thus, full number line. Trade paperback. Light wear to corners and edges. Out-curl to fore edges of covers. Bump to crown. Spine smooth and straight. Bump/crimp to rear fore edge. Edited and with an Afterword by Peter Gizzi. Black and white frontispiece. (xxiv)265pp. Interior unmarred. Octavo.
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- Title
- The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer
- Author
- Spicer, Jack
- Publisher
- Wesleyan University Press
- Publication year
- 1998
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0819563404
- ISBN 13
- 9780819563408
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Item weight
- 476 grams
- Dimensions
- 14.61 centimeters width by 22.86 centimeters height by 1.27 centimeters depth
- Seller catalogs
- Poetry
Illuminates Jack Spicer's provocative lectures on radical poetics
The House That Jack Built collects for the first time the four historic talks given by controversial poet Jack Spicer just before his early death in 1965. These lively and provocative lectures function as a gloss to Spicer's own poetry, a general discourse on poetics, and a cautionary handbook for young poets. This long-awaited document of Spicer's unorthodox poetic vision, what Robin Blaser has called "the practice of outside," is an authoritative edition of an underground classic.
Peter Gizzi's afterword elucidates some of the fundamental issues of Spicer's poetry and lectures, including the concept of poetic dictation, which Spicer renovates with vocabularies of popular culture: radio, Martians, and baseball; his use of the California landscape as a backdrop for his poems; and his visual imagination in relation to the aesthetics of west-coast funk assemblage. This book delivers a firsthand account of the contrary and turbulent poetics that define Spicer's ongoing contribution to an international avant-garde.
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About the Author
PETER GIZZI is the author of the poetry collections Artificial Heart (1997) and Periplum (1992), and he is the recipient of a Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets.
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